The next day, Lawrence woke up late.

"I didn't do much yesterday, but I felt very tired, and now it's estimated that it's past nine o'clock, right?"

Lawrence got up from his bed and looked out the window at the weather.

Soon Lawrence saw the farmland in the distance, where Sariel, Andrew, and Sophia were busy carrying hay in the distance.

The weeds and sun-dried pumpkin vines were all in the ground, and the three were packing them up and carrying them to the warehouse.

"Why don't you call me?"

Lawrence suddenly felt neglected.

"Maybe it's because you see that I'm asleep and don't want to bother me ......"

Despite thinking so, Lawrence still felt a little uncomfortable, he hadn't done anything for the family, and he didn't have the credit to sleep peacefully.

After thinking for a few seconds, Lawrence sighed.

"I'd better find a place to live as soon as possible, it's always a little uncomfortable to live here, Sariel is a good girl, it's not good for me to continue to eat and drink here for nothing."

"Working here to help out can also be recognized by Sariel, but I actually prefer to live freely and take control of my own family than Sariel's approval."

Lawrence realizes that there is a problem, and he can no longer disturb Sariel's life.

If you don't have the idea of inverting the door, then it would be a little too awkward to continue to stay in someone's house and work hard.

Sariel is indeed a good girl, and Lawrence stepped out of the bedroom to see the breakfast reserved on the dining table.

After eating breakfast alone, Lawrence silently went out to find a place to live.

I have seen many places in the mountain, there are not many places to live, and there are many problems in each of them.

Lawrence could only go a little further.

At noon, Lawrence sat weakly on the stone, looking at the tired green mountains and green waters, blue sky and white clouds.

"You can't just go back to dinner today, right?"

Lawrence was a little depressed, trying to think of a countermeasure.

"I'll find something to eat myself, maybe I can make a trap and try to bring back some prey?"

All problems boil down to the lack of resources, and since the materials here are also abundant, as long as you don't go back empty-handed, the feeling will definitely be different.

Lawrence quickly began to move, and it was not in vain to walk a lot in the mountains in the past few days, and he also saw some potholes, and traces of animal stays.

Depending on the height of the mountain, the animals and plants that appear are also different.

At the foot of the mountain is a leafy forest with many tall trees and fruit trees and bushes suitable for building houses, and it is said that the forest is also home to animals such as wolves and wild boars.

Above the forest zone is a zone of alpine meadows, and beyond that are bare rocks and snow-capped peaks.

As the height of the forest changes, the plant species changes from broad-leaved trees to more wind-tolerant and cold-tolerant cedars and pines.

When it comes to building a house, the first choice is pine trees.

One is that it is close to the mountain and easy to find, and the other is that pine and fir are the main materials for building houses, and the quality is better.

Before winter, it is the time for small animals to store fat, and there are many food storage masters such as squirrels who are busy.

Lawrence walked for an hour to the front of a pine forest, some distance from Andrew's, and no one usually approached it.

This is a dense and quiet forest, surrounded by quiet and towering pine trees and unknown trees, and trees over 20 meters old can be seen everywhere, and it is inevitable that you will feel very small when you enter this forest.

There was a thick pile of rotten leaves on the ground, and Lawrence crouched down to see that among the branches and leaves and the dusty and dirty plant debris, there were many busy little bugs.

There were insects and birds chirping all around, and Lawrence looked around but couldn't find any sounding birds.

Soon Lawrence found what he was looking for near a pine tree.

Lots of exploding pine cones that fell to the ground at random.

Lawrence looked closely around these dusty, cracked pine cones and soon saw black fecal particles.

"The pine cones here must have attracted a lot of critters, I can set some traps and see if I can hit the good luck!"

Lawrence began collecting nearby branches.

Coming from the city with a dagger for self-defense, Lawrence took out the dagger he had hidden from his waist and made a rat trap in the woods.

Traps are triggered tie-up traps in which a rope is tied with a little force from a bouncy branch, the rope is tied to the end of a stick, and a looper is left in between that is easy to tighten.

The bouncy branches will retract upwards, so jam the stick and let the looper spread around the trap.

It's like holding the strap of a water cup with one hand and pushing it up, assuming that the lid of the glass is just stuck under the corner of the table, the force will tilt the glass.

This is the case with the sticks tied to the end of the stick, which will the end when pulled by the branches, so that two fixed branches are inserted on the left and right sides to form three standing branches, and an upper crossbar tied horizontally to the top of the three sticks.

A standing mouth-shaped trap is quickly set up, and when the critter steps on the crossbar below, it will unbalance the stick, and then the elastic branches will go up, and the looper will instantly tighten the animal's body.

The principle of the trap is very simple, it takes a while to find a rattan similar to a rope.

Lawrence observed his surroundings.

"Don't be too short, or if you catch a squirrel, you'll be eaten by other animals, such as wild boars and snakes."

Lawrence quickly chose a pine tree more than ten meters high, choosing it because it had a branch that could be pulled down at a height of three or four meters.

The branches are four or five meters away from the stump, so that the prey will not be able to reach the village and the store after being brought up, and will be suspended in the air.

"This height should be beyond the reach of other animals except wolves and lynxes, right?"

"Forget it, let's look at it like this first."

"It's almost time to go back, find some materials in the evening and make a few more traps, and bring them over tomorrow to try."

Lawrence didn't have any hopes, and the bait for the trap was the ubiquitous pine cone pine nuts, but he helped to remove the pine nuts from the pine cones and place the offal around the trap.

Lawrence quickly ran to the bottom of the hill and returned to Andrew's house before dark.

Andrew, Sariel, and Sophia all sat in the courtyard and only stood up when they saw Lawrence return.

"Lawrence, you're finally back, don't come back so late in the future, we're all worried about you."

Andrew earnestly advised Lawrence, "The night in the mountains is very dangerous, don't go out of the house after the sun goes down!" ”

Lawrence nodded and said, "I know, and I'll remember this reminder." ”

Sariel didn't want to say anything, everyone was already tired after a hard day, "I'm going to rest." ”

She soon walked into the dimly lit room, and in a few minutes the farmhouse would be completely dark, and nothing could be done.

Andrew said, "I'll close the door, Lawrence, you go to dinner, I'll check the sheepfold and the chicken coop later." ”

"Okay." Lawrence was also too tired, the road in the mountains was not easy to walk, and there was not much rest time for more than a month.

Today's dinner was a piece of bread and a turnip, and a bowl of boiled pea water.

Lawrence quickly devoured them all, and then Smeared entered his temporary room.

As Lawrence lay down tiredly, he quickly felt someone approaching.

"Sophia?"

Lawrence could feel the size of the other party, it was definitely not a man like Andrew, nor a big girl like Sariel, but a relatively small girl.

Sophia snuggled up in Lawrence's arms and didn't speak.

Lawrence was also tired, so he slept peacefully.