The days are gradually entering the height of summer, and for the people of Winter Village, they do not feel the heat of midsummer at all, but feel that the weather is cool and pleasant.

"Is it all so comfortable in the summer?" Will, from Port Royal, thinks that the summers here are similar to the winters in Port Royal, warm and comfortable, not particularly humid, and the wind blowing from the Winter River from time to time makes the whole village very cool, and he now likes it more and more.

"Yes, that's the hottest part of the summer." According to David's experience in the past two or three years, the hottest time in this place in summer is only 27 or 8 degrees, and it is only a few days, and with the cool breeze blowing from the winter river, it is still comfortable and pleasant at the hottest: "But winter is more difficult." ”

The winter in Winter Village was not only cold, but also lasted for a long time, and every time he recalled the long and difficult winter of the previous two years, he was amazed that he was able to persevere.

"How hard is it?" Growing up in Port Royal, Will lacked an intuitive understanding of winter, and even if David told him it was cold, he couldn't imagine what it would look like.

"I can only remind you to build your house more tightly, and you must prepare more firewood before winter." Even if there is a forest to the north of Winter Village, it doesn't mean that they don't need to stock up on a lot of firewood. In winter, it often snows heavily, and when the snow closes the door, you can only rely on the firewood stored in advance to make a fire to keep warm. What's more, it is best to dry the firewood for a period of time before using it.

However, there should be no shortage of things to start a fire in the blacksmith's shop......

"I see." Will memorized David's words, and then inspected his newly built blacksmith shop with David.

Will became the blacksmith of Winter, and his house was not only a place to live, but also a blacksmith shop in Winter, so Will's house was the most troublesome to build - it was the first house in Winter's village to be built of stone.

With Fording, Steve, Peggy, Sharon, and Davy, a few strong laborers, and although there were no stonemasons, they searched for almost all the stones that could be used, and the cement was able to build the house.

Will grew up in a blacksmith shop and knew how to design the layout of the blacksmith shop, so Mark made some 'modernization' improvements to Will's design, and several strong laborers frantically carried the right stones to build it, and finally it took more than a month to complete the blacksmith shop.

The blacksmith's shop was eventually built, consisting of two parts: a working area and a living area, the work area was the blacksmith's shop, and in addition to the façade facing the 'main street', there was also a sales area for selling and displaying various products, a forging area where Will could work, and a warehouse for storing various works.

The living quarters are next to the blacksmith's shop, and it is not untrue to say that it is part of the whole building, as the quarters are connected to the blacksmith's interior, so that Will can go directly to his room to rest.

Will was overjoyed to see such a good blacksmith shop and house, and more and more chose to stay in Winter Village, only to run back to Port Royal when he thought of Elizabeth.

"Can I bring Elizabeth to the village?" When the blacksmith shop is completely completed, Will can't wait to show his beloved this blacksmith shop of his own.

To this question, David simply replied: "Of course." Then he lowered his head and ticked the back of the words "blacksmith shop" on the notebook.

"There's a blacksmith shop, there's a running water system and a public toilet."

Laura spent a lot of effort and time to deliver all kinds of equipment parts that Mark needed, and then the village chief, led by David, used 120 percent of his strength to assemble the equipment, dig trenches and lay pipes, and build a pumping and water purification station - a small machine room was built by the Winter River to ensure that the pumping and water purification equipment would not go unexpected.

By the time the pipes were finally connected to the assembled water storage equipment, David's planned water system was complete.

Nowadays, everyone in the village can get clean water from the river by going to the taps installed next to the water storage facilities in the village.

In fact, when the village chief took the lead in digging a ditch to lower the pipeline, the farmers wondered what the village chief was busy with. Even if all kinds of equipment are assembled and erected by the river and in the village, the villagers still don't know what this thing is for. It wasn't until the moment of clear water coming out of the tap that they understood.

"Why don't you just dig a well?"

Although the farmers did not ask directly, David could see similar thoughts in their expressions, and David did not waste time to explain this situation.

Regardless, Winter Village is finally connected to running water, and with wind and solar-charged battery packs, it should be fine to keep the equipment running for a long time.

Currently, the public facilities under construction in the village are the canteen, followed by the bathroom. The two facilities will be completed by the fall of autumn, and then the villagers should be ready for the winter.

None of the people in the village knew about Winter, but David knew that autumn in this place was very short, or that the temperature in autumn in this place would drop quickly, and it would be no different from winter elsewhere in late autumn. If the villagers prepare for the winter according to the experience of their previous lives, they will definitely be in bad luck.

When autumn arrives, he reminds everyone to make preparations, including stockpiling firewood, making bacon, smoked fish, and making jams, to ensure that everyone in the village can survive the winter safely.

After thinking for a while, David felt that he should not have missed something, and wrote down everything he was going to do next in his notebook and flipped back and forth a few times.

"Next, do you want to upgrade everyone's houses in the village? Or is it about pavement and drainage? ”

He didn't dwell on it for too long, he felt that with the current situation in Winter Village, not to mention any asphalt roads, even paving stone pavements was too extravagant.

Again, in the current situation, there is no need to think about the drainage system, and it is almost the same to wait for the village to be further upgraded.

"So, it's time to consider upgrading everyone's house."

Now in the whole of Winter Village, only Will Turner lives in a stone house, which was built in consideration of the peculiarities of the blacksmith's work.

For example, David, the village chief, still lives in a one-room cabin, and judging from the layout and size of the house, it is even inferior to the houses of the later farmers.

"After a few rounds of planting, we can harvest a lot of grain by the time we get in the fall, right?"

I easily flipped out another document, which was full of information about the villagers and land of Rindong Village, which was an official document certified by the Kingdom of Tiran.

At present, there are a total of eight farmers in the village, not counting a group of visitors from other worlds, five of whom are indentured farmers under David's name, and more than half of the farmland cultivated around the village belongs to David himself.

Most of the remaining fields, which account for nearly half of the total, belong to Samantha and Conn, about one-third of the total, and the other three yeoman farmers have been converted into indentured farmers before they can be reclaimed for the land.

The last part belongs to Mark, Fordin, Peggy, Sharon, Steve, and Laura, but these few people don't have the idea of becoming big landowners, like Laura just planting random things after taking time out to reclaim a field, more to help Mark test whether various crops can survive.

Fordin, who has lived in seclusion in Winter Village for a long time, Peggy, and Sharon, who can't go back and can only live here, still planted some potatoes, after all, they are not the kind of people who can eat all the time with peace of mind.

Therefore, in the 'official records' of Winter Village, these people are all homesteaders, and each has their own farmland.

As for Will? He devoted himself to the work of the blacksmith, and had no heart or energy to do the reclamation work.

In the end, the old hunter Ardis and his titular adopted son Alfie, like Will, had no idea of cultivating the fields and continued to focus on their original career as a hunter.

"David."

Just as David was sorting out the villagers' information, Addis suddenly came over.

"Something?" David noticed that Attis was very serious, and he didn't have Alfie with him, who would lead him wherever he went, which meant that Attis had something to talk about alone with him: "Sit down and talk slowly. ”

Pouring a glass of water for Attis, David closed the papers and notebook in front of him, and waited for Addis to speak.

"I'm taking Alfie northeast along the edge of the forest today, looking for any big game." As an experienced hunter, Ardis knew that this was the time to prepare for the winter, and a medium or large game could not only provide enough meat to eat, but also trade it for other necessities.

In order to ensure that he could better find his prey and facilitate the transport of it, he went out on horseback this time.

"What did you find?"

Addis ran to find his prey, but when he came back, he looked for himself, and his expression didn't look like he had made any good gains, but more like he had discovered something unexpected.

"I see some people."

"Oh?"

"It's located northeast of Winter Village, about a day's walk away." As an experienced hunter, Ardis can accurately judge the distance between the two places: "I have secretly observed that the people are cutting wood and clearing the land, and they are building many wooden houses, and I think they are building new villages. ”

"A new village?" David was a little surprised, he didn't expect that someone else would come to the Northern Plains to build a village, and even run further north than himself: "Iron Tree Fort has sent a development team out again?" ”

Could it be that because of the establishment of Winter Village, Iron Tree Fort felt that it was not difficult to establish a village here? So a new development team was formed?

"I don't think so." Ardis dismissed David's speculation: "I saw heavily armed knights and soldiers among those people. ”