After asking Laura to get a full set of things related to Warcraft, the next few days were calm in Winter Village.

David's heaviest job every day is to help Mark harvest all kinds of crops.

Chinese cabbage, baby cabbage, leeks, green onions, and cucumbers have all been harvested, and with the massive amount of potatoes that eight contract farmers are constantly harvesting, the village now not only has no shortage of food reserves, but even has a lot of variety to enrich the menu.

"That's great!"

Looking at the various foods piled up next to him, Davidle's mouth couldn't close, and he was always smiling. Even when a few crops didn't grow as expected, David wasn't much disappointed.

Mark also made an important discovery: "The land near the village is much more fertile now than it was at the beginning, and the land a little further away is much better than when I first arrived. ”

"Are you sure?"

"I'm pretty sure I've been watching the land...... Honestly, did you secretly use some strange spells? Mark observes the farmland every day, and no one knows the state of the land in Winter Village better than him, and he can be very sure that the land in Winter Village has become much more fertile than when he first arrived: "The most striking example, don't you notice that the potatoes in these fields are all bigger and more numerous than the potatoes in the distant fields?" ”

"There's been a lot of going on lately, and I haven't paid much attention to the crops." In his free time, he often looked at the fact that a bunch of things had happened one after another recently, just in time for the harvest period, so he didn't notice these things: "However, this should be a good thing." ”

"Of course, more fertile land not only allows crops to grow better and produce more food, but also does not restrict planting."

Mark then gave David science all kinds of knowledge, such as potatoes, it is not recommended to cultivate crops in a row under normal circumstances, and generally after one harvest, the land that has been planted with potatoes will grow something else. This is because continuous cultivation leads to a decrease in yields because the nutrients in the land that are useful for potatoes are already being consumed.

However, the land where the first potatoes were planted in Winter Village has been planted three rounds of potatoes in a row, and the yield has not only not decreased but is still increasing, and the land itself has even become more fertile, which is unscientific.

The most plausible reason Mark could think of was David, the magical village chief. After all, it is not surprising that this village chief can 'call' people from all kinds of worlds, and can make the land fertile.

"Hehehe, in fact, I don't know why!"

David coped with the past with an embarrassed smile, but in fact, he already had the answer in his heart: Mark Watney was the root cause of the land becoming more fertile. If nothing else, as his relationship with Mark gets better, the land of Winter Village may become more fertile.

In that case, crops that cannot survive at the moment may be planted and bear fruit smoothly in the future, and the agricultural prospects of Rindong Village are many times better than he thought at the beginning.

He originally thought that the village would only survive on crops such as potatoes, and if he wanted more kinds of vegetables and food, he had to go to Irontree Fort to buy them.

"After harvesting these crops, what should I plant next?" Mark didn't dwell too much on why the land was fertile, and he wanted to continue testing what could be grown on the land.

"Let's plant potatoes!"

"Potatoes have been tested ......"

"No, it's not far from autumn now, and I'm afraid that the rest of the time can only be planted with crops with a relatively short growth period, such as potatoes."

"The crops I tested didn't grow for long."

"Well, that's casual."

Of course, Mark had considered the climate of Winter Village, and as the top (self-proclaimed) botanist on the planet, he could not have made such a low-level mistake, and he had already asked David about the general climate conditions of Winter Village at various times, and estimated the appropriate time for planting.

Eventually, with autumn still in the corner, Mark decided to plant some radishes and shallots to make the menu even more varied.

As Mark continues to work in the fields, Laura suddenly comes over to David.

"Something?"

"Yes." Laura didn't shy away from Mark, and she had this idea since she knew she could bring someone to Winter Village: "I have a good friend who wants to bring him to live in Winter Village, he was a chef on the Stoic. ”

"Cook?" Before David could react, Mark almost jumped: "This kind of talent must not be missed, I think the canteen that has just been built just needs a chef to be in charge." ”

Mark was talking about the new building, located not far from the farmland at his feet, which on the surface looked a bit similar to the previous makeshift wooden house, but in fact it was much more sophisticated in terms of structure and interior decoration than the hastily built wooden house.

This cafeteria, which has a wide hall and enough for everyone in Winter Village to eat at the same time and even has many empty seats, was built some time ago, and has been working on various improvements recently, but it is scattered and intermittently not systematic, and every time I feel that it has been done, then someone will find that something is missing, and this situation is because of the lack of someone who is good at this work.

"What's that friend's name?"

"Jonah Maiawa, I think he's going to love it here."

David secretly said in his heart, sure enough, it was this person, and then nodded to Laura: "If that Jonah is willing to come to live in Winter Village, of course I can't ask for it." ”

Jonah is the only character other than Laura to appear in all three installments in the new Tomb Raider trilogy, and he is Laura's most trusted companion. Jonah also lived up to Laura's trust and always supported her through those adventures.

With such a trustworthy character and a certain amount of combat effectiveness, David certainly has no reason to refuse, not to mention that Winter Village does lack a chef.

As more and more people in the village grew, Mark couldn't always be a part-time cook, after all, Mark also had his own work to do, and he had just heard that Mark had already arranged the planting plan for the next year: Mark was going to try some crops with a longer growth period, and grow some fruit by the way.

Continuing to work hard, when the work was completed, David carefully cleaned up his personal hygiene, changed his clothes, and came out, he saw Laura taking a strong man to visit the village.

"David! This is Jonah. Laura originally pointed to the various buildings in the village to introduce Jonah, but when she saw David coming out, she immediately introduced the two of them: "This is David, the village chief of Winter Village." ”

"Hello, I'm Jonah Maiawa." Jonah was a strong, honest-looking man with a friendly smile on his face, which made it easy to get a good impression.

"Hello, I'm David." Reaching out to shake Jonah's hand, David greeted Jonah, "Welcome to Winter Village." ”

After getting to know each other, Jonah sighed that since he met Laura, his worldview has been reshaped, and all kinds of strange things have been seen.

"Now I'm in another world." Although it looks no different from Earth, since Laura told him that he was in another world, he was in another world: "It looks beautiful here. ”

Jonah looked around and sighed at the environment of Winter Village: to the west was a vast river that flowed from north to south and then turned west to the west of Winter Village; To the north is a dense forest, and if you look farther away, you can see the peaks that stand in an unknown distance, and if you stand in the village of Rindon, you can see that the peaks are covered with snow.

To the east and south are plains, and to the east and south, there are large expanses of verdant green grass, with waves in the wind, as if they were a sea of green.

"yes, it's beautiful." If it weren't for the beauty of this place, the pioneer team wouldn't have chosen to build a village here. At that time, no one thought that under this beautiful scenery, there would be such a harsh living environment.

Fortunately, with David's awakening of Goldfinger and some hard work, Winter Village has been qualified to survive in this place for a long time.

"Would you like to see the cafeteria?" Jonah was brought in to make Jonah a chef in the cafeteria.

"I also want to see where I will work in the future." Jonah was also curious about his future work environment, so he could see what he needed early and then go shopping as soon as possible.

"There should be a lot of problems, so there is a great need for professionals like you in the village." Led Jonah to visit the dining hall, Jonah was very satisfied with the environment of the canteen, such a canteen built purely of wood, with a unique beauty, but the environment in the kitchen made him not know how to evaluate it, so he could only smirk and deal with a few words.

David knew that Jonah was embarrassed to say anything ill, so he showed around and let Jonah study it himself.

Jonah was not polite, and directly took out a pen and a small notebook, and counted the various tools in the kitchen to determine the various tools he wanted to buy.

Turning his head to look at Laura, who was winking at herself.

Followed Laura out of the cafeteria and stood outside the cafeteria door and chatted.

"Speaking of which, what should I pay this Jonah?"

Jonah didn't care about that, but he always wanted to open his own restaurant. Laura glanced at the cafeteria in front of her: "This cafeteria won't exist for long, will it?" ”

She knew some of David's follow-up plans, and she knew that Davy wouldn't let Winter Village maintain this kind of small village for a long time.

"Yes, it won't be long before this place will be converted into a hotel...... Or a hotel. "Facilities like the cafeteria, like the water system, are just overused facilities that will be upgraded or phased out.

At the same time, David also understood what Laura meant, and let Jonah be the owner of the inn when the time came. For a talent with a certain amount of combat effectiveness and a very guaranteed character, this reward is really not high.