Maloney Mansfield's accommodation for David and Laura is located in the outermost part of the inner city, which is not a good location, and when you open the window, you can see the tall inner city walls, except for a few pots of green plants placed on the windowsill, only the green grass and flowers downstairs can be admired.

The furniture and bedding inside are not made of high-quality materials, but they are clean and tidy, and they don't smell strange, which makes Laura breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's a good place to live."

After Maloney's attendant Huey brought the two here, introduced the basic situation, and arranged an adjoining room for the two, he took his leave - saying goodbye, but in fact Huey lived on the first floor, and David and Laura could come to him at any time if they needed anything.

"It's like two different worlds from the outer city."

"Actually, it's two completely different worlds." David glanced at the tall wall, which was not only the strongest defense line of Irontree, but also a barrier between the two worlds. If ordinary people don't choose to join the development team, they may never have the opportunity to enter the inner city in their lifetime.

But David wasn't thinking about the lofty question of how to change the world, he was thinking about something realistic: should I build a wall for Winter Village?

Thinking about it, it seems that there is no need for the time being, just a few houses, a few fields, and a few people in Winter Village, what happens can be found and dealt with as soon as possible, and there is no need for things like city walls.

When the village grew and the population increased, and the village was inhabited by more ordinary people in need of protection, the wall was needed as a defensive facility.

"What are you going to do in the next few days?" Laura walked around the room twice, then went to her room to look at it again and sent it back to David's room: "Are you waiting for that Inspector here?" ”

"I'm going to say hi to Addis and tell him about our arrangements, and by the way, ask him to help me ask if anyone would like to move to live in Winter Village." David himself had to go to the outer city to make an announcement, to see if he could attract some farmers and blacksmiths.

"I'll go with you!"

Listening to David's arrangement, Laura didn't want to wait here, it was too boring.

Downstairs and calling Huey, David first asked about the announcement, and learned that it was a simple matter to make 'one' announcement, but if you wanted to make an announcement that was enough to notify the entire outtown, it would cost some money.

In this era when communication is basically based on roaring, and the civilians in the outer city cannot be expected to be well-educated, the only reliable way to publish the announcement to the whole outer city is to hire people and scatter them all over the city to 'preach' to the people.

If you want to hire someone, you naturally have to spend money! But the crux of the matter was that David had no money.

Huey knew that David had no money, and he didn't say anything sarcastic or show any disdain, he was able to become the most trusted attendant of the officials, and he still had the basic professionalism.

"If you don't want to spend money......" just put it another way, which made David feel much more comfortable: "Then you can only post a notice in the square outside the city, where you can spread the news as much as possible, and you can also ask someone from the town hall to help write this announcement." ”

Huey's solution is the most reliable one at the moment, but it still needs someone to stand by the announcement and answer some questions that may arise.

David nodded, Huey didn't continue after saying the way, someone must be guarding the announcement, one is that there are not many civilians who are literate, or even very few; In addition, the announcement said at most that new villages had been established in the north and farmers and craftsmen were recruited, so it was impossible to write down all the specific information, and someone needed to answer it in time.

If David had money, of course he could hire someone to do it by the announcement, but if he didn't have money, he could only go into battle himself.

"By the way, in general, it takes a few days for the Inspector to do all the preparations?"

"I don't know very much about that." There were some things that Huey could answer, and there were things that he couldn't give an accurate answer to, especially when it came to his own master.

David estimated in his heart that if Inspector Maloney-Mansfield was a relatively hard-working officer, then two or three or five days would be enough. I'm afraid that this adult has a serious 'procrastination', anyway, for this adult, what is going on in the village in the north has little to do with him, so what can he do if he waits a few more days before setting off?

In that case, it's impossible to see how long we'll have to wait.

I was very fortunate that the situation that made David extremely entangled and depressed did not happen, and after meeting Ardis, I greeted him and asked him to help find some farmers and craftsmen who were not happy with their lives in Irontree Fort and wanted to change places to earn a living; Then I went to the affairs hall of Iron Tree Fort to write an announcement and posted it on the square of the outer city, where I was watched by a group of people for a long time.

As soon as he had finished dinner at the lodging that Maloney had arranged for him, Huey came to see him, and Huey informed David: "Master Mansfield has set a date for his departure, and he will leave after breakfast in four days." ”

About the fastest time David had estimated, it seemed that the Inspector was a very diligent official.

With an exact departure date, David was able to make an appointment with Ardis for departure, as well as a meeting time for anyone interested in going to Winter Village.

With full anticipation, David went to the place where the announcement was posted in the square every day, but unfortunately there were not many people who asked, and there was no one who clearly stated that he was willing to go to Winter Village.

After three days, he was lonely, and on the third day, there were no more people watching the announcement, even if David kept selling his village, at most he got back some suspicious eyes.

On the fourth day, David met Inspector Maloney Mansfield again, and the Inspector still had a faint smile on his face, greeted David very kindly, and comforted him by the way: "Adventurous people have already joined the pioneering team, so you don't need to be discouraged." ”

Obviously, the Inspector has a clear understanding of what David has been doing these days, and he also knows that David has not recruited half a person in the past few days.

He didn't find it strange at all about this situation, wasn't that the case with civilians in the outer city? As long as they can live, they will live, as for whether they will have a better life in another place? They don't even think about it.

What's more, the people who came back from the development team have not been less than describing the situation in the north in the past two years, and the few people who are excited have given up those 'unrealistic' dreams when they think of these people's descriptions.

David's Winter Village wants to recruit farmers and artisans in Irontree Castle, which is more difficult than ordinary newly built villages.

"Thank you, Inspector." David was mentally prepared and did not show any disappointment, at this time he looked curiously at the few behind Maloney.

Judging from the attire, several of them are wearing armor and weapons, and they should be accompanying guards, one is Maloney's squire Huey, who should be responsible for taking care of the Inspector at the head, and two are wearing light clothes, and they can't tell what their identity is from their clothes, maybe they are Maloney's subordinates?

Maloney didn't have an idea for Davy, just motioned for David to mount the mount that had been prepared for him.

Looking at David's slightly jerky movements, Maloney's expression did not change; After noticing Laura's skillful movements, the doubts in her eyes became a little thicker, and finally she couldn't help but finally ask: "Don't know Miss Laura's surname yet?" ”

"Crawford!" Laura glanced at Davy, and after seeing that he gave herself a casual look, she simply said her last name.

"Crawford......" Maloney thought about it, and was sure that it was not the family in Irontree Castle, or even the big family in the surrounding area and the royal city of Tiran.

He could never have imagined that the Crawford family came from Britain, a country very, very, very far away from the kingdom of Tiran.

After the past few days, David has actually vaguely guessed that this Maloney may have misunderstood something, but he didn't explain the idea, let him misunderstand, this kind of misunderstanding is not a bad thing for himself.

Perhaps this Maloney's preparation in just a few days has something to do with this misunderstanding. Even the two spare horses next to it may have been the result of this misunderstanding - there were several horses carrying goods, but two of them had only saddles and no goods, which were obviously specially vacated.

Maloney Mansfield has done a lot of preparation, not only for the part of the job he is responsible for, but even for figuring out that David will take 'a few people' back to Winter Village this time.

Horses were arranged for David and Laura before, and horses were also arranged for Ardis and Alfie, who would definitely travel with David and Laura.

Passing through the square in the outer city, David saw that the notice he had posted had been taken down, and there were many farmers and craftsmen around him who had asked him in the past few days, and they were looking at him with all kinds of eyes, and it could be seen from their expressions that most of these people were looking at the lively mentality, and the thoughts of envy and wanting to be together were completely non-existent.

Follow the main road – the inner city gate will leave enough space as the main access road for easy access, and the people on horseback will soon pass through the vast outer city.

As soon as he left the outer city, David noticed two figures, one large and one small, standing on the 'side of the road' and constantly looking, it was Ardis and Alfie.

Ardis already knew that he would have to go with an official from a noble family when he moved to the north this time, but he didn't expect that the noble officials also provided Davy and Laura with mounts, and looking at the team that was all riding horses, Ardis thought that he could only go on the road alone with Alfie.

Unexpectedly, after the team stopped in front of him, David pointed to the two empty mounts and motioned for Ardis and Alfie to ride up.

"And this kind of good thing?"