In the village hall, Morga, as the old village chief, first stood up and reported in detail to Li Ran the extent of construction these days, as the problem of the houses where the villagers lived that Li Ran was more concerned about, although Morga, who was dedicated to defense, built it relatively simply, but it had basically met the requirements for living. The outer city defense has been completed for the most part, and only the southern city wall where Li Ran was stationed last night is still under construction. Five lookout posts were built, and although they were still only adobe, they were barely able to carry people, but they could not carry too many archers and observers.

After Morga's report was completed, Li Ran listened carefully to the reports of several other elders, one of whom was mentally healthy in order to solve the food problem in the village, and took his children to risk danger, found a lot of edible fungi and melons and fruits in a swamp in the jungle east of the village, and was pleasantly surprised to find a large pond with a lot of fatty fresh fish, but unfortunately, it was occupied by a group of lizard people, and also saw several big werewolves.

As a more classic type of troops, the lizardmen have long been known, and it is written that they claim to be the descendants of the snake god, but in fact they are still a humanoid race, their faces are pointed like lizards, their skin is covered with cyan scales, and they have a long, powerful tail. Their teeth were sharp, and the ends of their hands and feet were like sharp claws, and they were webbed between them. Female lizardfolk have smaller mouths, lighter-colored and sparse scales, and very elastic skin under the scales. From a human point of view, young women who look at lizardmen are attractive in all parts except their faces.

The sharp teeth of the lizardmen are powerful and powerful. It is said that it can even bite through iron armor. However, because the mouth is not large enough to be used as an offensive weapon, the sharp teeth are mainly used to make it easier to bite the fish in the swamp. Due to their frequent movement in the water, the lizardfolk wear very little clothing to cover their bodies. Even the warriors of the lizardmen do not wear metal armor, as this will make it difficult for the lizards to move in the water. The swamps are dangerous and impassable areas for other races. But it's the best cover for the lizards.

After pondering for a while, Li Ran asked the elder about the weapons and equipment of these lizardmen in detail, and when he learned that most of them were dressed in simple clothes, and they were only holding some wooden sticks and rudimentary iron tools, Li Ran nodded slightly, as a classic class, although the lizardmen are very good in all abilities, but in terms of melee ability, they are far inferior to their ability to use bows and arrows. Most of these lizardmen only use wooden sticks and iron tools, and it seems that they are just ordinary troops among the lizardmen.

Expressing his gratitude to the elder, Li Ran went on to listen to the reports of the two elders. It is nothing more than the locking events that happened in the village during his absence, such as whose child smashed his leg during construction, whose wild boar gave birth to several piglets, and whose family has been reluctant to move from the original place.

Several elders thought that the lord would be bored with these tedious little things, but they didn't expect Li Ran to not only not show impatience. On the contrary, they listened very carefully, and asked a few questions from time to time, which also made the two elders more energetic, and they actually spoke for about an hour or two in one breath. Finally, under Doric's reminder, Li Ran proposed that everyone have lunch together.

Despite being a lord. But Li Ran, who was unprepared, could only dig out a few portions of food from his backpack and find the villagers who were guarding the heart of the town to warm it casually. It's a lunch.

During the banquet, Li Ran took out part of the raw materials he went back to buy this time and handed them to the old village chief Morga, and was ready to discuss with him the plan after the city defense was built, according to his original drawings, when the basic city defense was built, the main construction direction should be placed on the living and environment of the villagers. However, the old village chief, Morga, changed his mind at this time, insisting on fortifying and building a few more outposts.

For the old village chief Morga, who only wanted to build a defense system from beginning to end, Li Ran couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, and after discussing with him for a long time, it didn't work, and finally he had to take out the rights of the lord and force him to stop building after the city defense was completed. But he couldn't stand the stubborn Morga's chatter, and finally under the persuasion of everyone, Li Ran agreed that he could strengthen the existing outpost, but no more could be built, and the remaining materials would be used for the construction of the villagers' living environment and public facilities.

The old village chief was obviously very dissatisfied with Li Ran's insistence, but the other party was now the lord after all and had the final decision, so before the banquet was dismissed, Morga, who had eaten a bite indiscriminately, left angrily.

"This little guy's temper is still so stubborn! Hey, please forgive me! He must have gone to the south to supervise the construction of the city wall again," the oldest old man in the banquet looked at their lord Li Ran with some concern, and said cautiously.

Li Ran's expression was slightly stunned, and then he laughed and said, "You are too worried, it can only be said that it is my luck to have a senior like Morga to guide you." Here, I also hope that you can be like the old village chief, if you have any opinions or good ideas, although I am also a newcomer after all, I am also narrow, and many things are inevitably not thought through. Fortunately, it's all about one goal, and I hope we can all be honest with each other in the future."

Several elders didn't expect the lord to be so magnanimous, not only did they not complain to Morga, but on the contrary, they also encouraged them to speak directly, and everyone happily quickly replied yes, but Doric was shocked in his heart, because just after Li Ran finished saying that, he saw the latter specially cast a glance at him, and his eyes were full of suspicion and vigilance.

"Did he find out just when he came back?" Dorik, who had a ghost in his heart, couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and a dozen high-ranking warriors and scouts sent by his family were hidden in the village as villagers. Although it was not a deliberate rebellion, it also represented a distrust of the lord. Moreover, he and Morga had hoped to rely on these people to deliver a fatal blow to the lord if they found out that the lord's character was not good.

But Li Ran's heart at this moment was flooded with big waves, since last night after being reminded by the captain of the Zereramo orcs, Tulga, he asked Topol to bring several other lamp gods to confirm, he has been guessing where these people are from, at first he suspected that these people were the hidden power of the old village chief Morga, but when he took Morga to deliberately pass by them, he found that their eyes did not change at all.

So he put his suspicions on several other village elders, but found that they didn't seem to be right. When talking about honesty just now, he suddenly thought of this imperial clerk who he had never suspected, because of his identity and attitude all along, Li Ran never thought that he would be hostile to him, but just this glance, the expression on the other party's face made his heart cold.

After chatting with the village elders before, Li Ran knew that there were countless villages like theirs in the entire empire, and the job of an idle clerk was at most to supervise the payment of taxes, and it didn't matter to them who the management of the village was, they didn't care that it was the village chief, as long as they paid taxes, and they were not afraid that there would be a village that dared not to pay taxes, because no city or village dared to openly oppose the empire.

Thinking of this, Li Ran had to rethink the real relationship between this person and Morga, because as a clerk, Doric really shouldn't have any hostility towards him, and the empire would not send so many elite warriors for a small village.

In the midst of small talk, Li Ran silently finished the lunch in front of him, and then left the elder who found the pond and the lizard man in the jungle, different from Morga's consideration, as a lord, Li Ran is now thinking about the problem of eating the villagers, although he went back to buy a lot of food this time, but the study class on the eating problem of so many people in a village can't buy it by himself every time, so the top priority is to find the problem of the villagers' food source as soon as possible.

In the current situation that the whole village needs to be built and the population is extremely tight, reclamation and sowing will definitely not be possible, first, the results are too slow, and second, it takes too long. Although hunting and gathering is relatively old-fashioned, it is a good method, and a pond that can provide a steady stream of fresh fish makes Li Ran's heart warm.

It is precisely because of this thought that now how to solve the group of lizardmen guarding the pond has become Li Ran's problem at the moment, and it is definitely not appropriate to attack strongly, in addition to the fear of casualties because of the small number of soldiers, a heavy structure like the sulfur steel golem is really not suitable for fighting in the swamp, I am afraid that before I encounter the lizard people, I will be stuck in the mud and unable to pull it out!