Chapter 12: Survival
"In the past, when Uncle Potter was there, he could still hunt some prey from the Badlands and Wastelands, but since Uncle Potter left with the men in the village, we can only rely on growing some food by ourselves and digging some wild vegetables around to survive, fortunately, everyone doesn't eat much, but every winter someone is frozen to death and starved to death, and now it is the end of autumn, although we have harvested some food, but it is still not enough, maybe someone will starve to death this year. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Heidi said to Leo with a bitter face as soon as she talked about eating.
Heidi, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, was almost unable to hold on to the days when she led the villagers to survive, and as she spoke, Heidi's face was full of tears at some point. She suddenly raised her head, looked at Leo, and slowly knelt down to Leo with a resolute and sincere expression, propped her hands on the ground and begged: "Young Master Leo, please let everyone live! You must take everyone to live! As long as you can let everyone live, let me do anything! As long as everyone lives! Woo woo~"
Heidi's pleas and cries cut Leo's heart, and this kind girl had given all her heart for the sake of the village. Leo swore in his heart that he would never let the kind girl in front of him cry again.
Leo stepped forward to help Heidi, pulled up his sleeves to wipe the tears from Heidi's face, looked into the girl's blue eyes, and promised the girl word by word that he would lead everyone to live a good life. Although Leo's face was still cold, perhaps it was the friendly gesture at this time or his sincere assurance that made Heidi slowly calm down under his gaze, and a trace of shame slowly crept up the girl's face.
"Ahem!" Feng Xifan's light cough reminded Leo, only then did he find that he was still holding Heidi's arms tightly, and the distance between the two was a little too close, Leo quickly let go of Heidi, and deliberately diverted the topic: "The problem of food is left to me, let Griman take the Roman infantry out hunting, the meat and fur of the beast are enough for us to survive this winter." By next year, we will be able to grow some more food. ”
The blush on Heidi's face had not yet dissipated, and one hand was still quietly twisting the corner of her clothes, but when she heard Leo talk about the problem of food, she couldn't care less about being shy, and immediately replied: "There are many demonic beasts in the Badlands Wasteland, and the men in the village used to hunt, and there were often casualties, so you must be careful when hunting." There is no way to grow more grain, the wasteland is full of fine clay, which is not suitable for growing grain at all, and the land on which the village grows grain is still the soil that the Kovinas family transported from elsewhere back then!"
Heidi's words made Leo's mind suddenly flash in inspiration, and he asked Heidi, "What did you say?
Heidi was taken aback by Leo's sudden rhetorical question, but she said again: "There are a lot of magical beasts around, you must be careful when hunting! ”
"Clay! yes, it's clay!" Leo said excitedly, clapping his hands hard.
As a former archaeology student, Leo often deals with ceramics in ancient tombs, has a deep interest and understanding of the process of making ceramics by the ancients, and even played with countless tombs unearthed ceramics under the leadership of his mentor, and even fired some ceramics by himself.
Heidi didn't understand why Master Leo was so happy to hear about the clay, but he had to listen to him in the current situation. Leo noticed the confusion in Heidi's eyebrows, he couldn't help coughing lightly and calmed down, and without changing his face, he casually found an excuse to deal with Heidi, and sent Heidi away. After Heidi left, Feng Xifan, who had been watching quietly behind Leo, opened his mouth.
"Young Master, are you planning to fire ceramics by yourself?" Feng Xifan could see Leo's thoughts at a glance.
"That's right, Master Feng, if we fire our own ceramics and sell them, we can buy food and break the current predicament!" said Leo in a high-spirited manner, Feng Xifan could tell from his demeanor that he was full of confidence in his ideas.
"Although this method is good, young master, it is difficult to achieve it now!" Feng Xifan shook his head and sighed.
Although the old slave is not good at this, he has also heard of the method of firing ceramics, and it is difficult to make ceramics as his main business in the current situation in Haruna Village. First, there is clay in this wasteland, but there is no wood and no charcoal fuel, so how can we talk about firing?
Feng Xifan's analysis woke up Leo like a basin of cold water, making him realize that his ideas were too idealistic. Leo smiled bitterly on his face, maybe it was because of his low eyesight, although he had an idea, it was difficult to realize it.
Seeing that Leo's mood suddenly fell, Feng Xifan's always cold old face showed a few smiles, and he continued: "But the young master doesn't have to be discouraged, although there are thousands of difficulties, but at least now the young master has a place to stand, as long as he works hard, there will be development." What's more, as the saying goes, there is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts, as long as the young master wants to do it, the old slave believes that the young master will definitely realize his wishes. ”
"Hmm!" Leo nodded vigorously and said, "Master Feng, I will definitely work hard!"
Leo kept pacing in the house, thinking in his heart as he walked, wood and manpower, first solve the manpower problem, naturally there will be enough manpower to cut wood, but the problem is, there is no hole card that can be handed, how can it attract young and middle-aged laborers to the village?
"Young and middle-aged labor!?" Leo thought of this, and suddenly clapped his hands, looking suddenly realized.
Feng Xifan gently stroked a few strands of his beard on the side, looking at Li Ao as if he had made up his mind, and always showed a few smiles on his cold face.
Leo gathered the villagers, ordered Heidi to lead all the villagers into battle to clean up the abandoned houses, clean all the dwellings for later use, and then ordered Olix to go out hunting with his Roman infantry and store as much food as possible for the winter.
After everyone had made arrangements, Leo quietly called Griman aside and whispered to him for a long time, and then Griman quietly left the village with his greatsword on his back while everyone was not looking.
In the days that followed, Leo practiced martial arts every morning according to Feng Xifan's instructions, and in the afternoon he worked with the villagers to tidy up the village and do some chores.
In fact, when Leo stepped forward to help everyone with their work at the beginning, the villagers were frightened, and even Aunt Selena, who was stout and like a monster, was shocked and scattered. Leo's cognition is still different from this world, in this world, the nobility is high, on behalf of the gods and the will of His Majesty the Emperor to govern all the people, nobles and commoners are two distinct classes, completely insurmountable, and now Leo actually came to do rough work with the villagers as the second son of a viscount, which cost the villagers their lives, Leo still took a lot of effort to persuade the villagers to accept his behavior.
However, Leo's actions were not without effect, just a few days later, all the people in the village were familiar with this viscount second son who looked indifferent and expressionless, but also had no aristocratic shelf, no matter who it was, as soon as they saw him, they called Young Master Leo affectionately from the bottom of their hearts.
Although Feng Xifan saw Leo's behavior that was close to nonsense, he didn't stop it, no matter how Leo tossed in his eyes, it would not be worse than the original Haruna Village, of course, it was a good thing that Leo could be accepted by the villagers so quickly.
Olix has been very busy these days, leaving the village with his soldiers early in the morning and returning in the evening, but every day he comes back with a lot of prey on his shoulder. Although the individual strength of the Roman infantry is not high, they are skilled in the battle formation, and they can clean up the wild beasts around the village of Haruna one by one in a few days, and the villagers not only have enough meat to eat, but they do not need to worry about the attack of wild beasts in normal times. Of course, the happiest thing is Leo, he can get some god pleasure points from the Roman infantry fighting wild beasts every day, although it is not much, but after all, it is easy to come, and Leo's god pleasure points have climbed to 600 points in the past few days.
A few days later, Griman returned to the village with a large group of men.