In the cold of winter, the sun is shining.

After eight consecutive days of cloudy skies, the sun finally came out of the sky.

The people of Oak City climbed to the roof of the circular building and basked in the sun on the flat roof, drying things like clothes and sheets and diapers.

In the open space in the middle of the circular building, there are also women with children in their arms, as well as many lively children playing on the grass.

The circular building is called the Circle Building, and that's what people here call it.

In the middle of the Circle is where the Prophet lived, with a large meadow, a very large oak tree, and a large house where the Prophet lived.

The circular building has four floors, the first floor is for shops and markets, the second floor is for residences, the third floor is for the canteen school, and the fourth floor is for the school and library.

At present, people are not satisfied with living at all, there are a large number of vacant houses, and many people are concentrated on the first and second floors.

Pets are not allowed here, and domestic animals are not allowed.

On the first floor of the circular building, there are eight passages, four entrances and four exits.

The eight passages are all outward, all on the outer buildings, while in the inner ring facing the central shrine, there are only two passages, one in and one out.

The little ones can come in and play with the adults, and they need to check the identity cards of the adults, as long as they are not close to the Big Oak and the Prophet's Hut.

Jade entered the hut from the outside, and quickly took off the woollen cloak she was wearing.

Jade has lived here for almost a year, and currently serves as the head of the academy, teaching the maids, nuns, and other cultured men and women themselves.

There are so few people interested in knowledge here that most of the time there is nothing to do, mainly to sort out the books that no one is interested in, and copy them into the library from the Western South and the tombs of the nobles.

"It's been more than half a year, but only three books have been copied, and the prophet is troublesome when he asks."

Emerald is a little worried, there are too few literate people here, and many people are busy with various things, resulting in no one to do the book repair and maintenance work in the library.

As soon as I entered the large living room, I saw several witches and Lawrence sitting casually in the living room.

Some people are lying down, some are sitting, and some are playing chess on their stomachs.

With her long brown hair, Sariel was kicking and dancing happily in a red wool dress today, trying to make her dress look better if it floated up.

Bull, an ordinary woman next to her, smiled and corrected her movements, and raised her hands flat, paddling her body and dancing to demonstrate.

Sophia, a little girl with striking golden wavy hair, is whining.

"Master, if you let those women take their children outside to bask in the sun, I can't even go out to play."

Lawrence ignored Sophia's words and was looking at Candace, who was combing Catherine's hair, "also tied in the same double ponytail hairstyle as Sophia." Lawrence provided guidance.

Candace glanced at Sophia's hairstyle, nodded quickly, and got her hands up.

Emerald walked towards Lawrence.

"Master."

Lawrence looked at Emerald, "What's the matter?" ”

Jade said respectfully: "I want to contact the witches from the outside world to see if I can get the witches from the outside to join us, and I will only do this with your permission." ”

"That's it." Lawrence has a non-rejection and non-initiative attitude towards witches, "Witches out there are not all so easy to talk to, and I don't mind if you are willing to come over to me." ”

"If it's the kind of witch who has too much temper and is too dangerous, I think it's better to forget it."

Lawrence expressed his attitude and did not want to pay too much attention to the matter.

At present, the development is still dominated by the territory, and the basic territory of the territory should continue to be expanded, instead of wasting insufficient manpower and material resources on attracting external talents.

"Yes, I think that's the right thing to do." Emerald agrees with Lawrence that witches are not all a group of weak people, and many witches are synonymous with viciousness and strength.

"Now that we have defeated the priest of the church and the army of the kingdom of Loven, many witches and witches will converge on us."

"Maybe we can ask Kassandra ahead of time if any wizarding families need help lately."

Lawrence pondered the matter, and then looked at the elegant and intellectual lady in front of him.

"So can you go? I think it would be much better to have someone who knows the specifics of the situation. ”

Emerald quickly said: "I beg your pardon, I still have a lot of things to do now, if I go back to the Norrison Kingdom, I will soon be found out by the people there and tell the church." ”

Lawrence had a funny expression.

"That's it, I don't think there's any need to care about these things now, we live our lives, if they are willing to come and serve me, follow my will in exchange for a chance to live, I will not refuse."

"But to be honest, most of those noblewomen don't have a good temper."

Jade saw that Lawrence was not interested in the outside world, so she did not continue to talk about this topic.

A few days later, the caravan of the Archievist family arrived in the town of Bhumisius.

Lawrence went down with Emerald and Catherine, and soon met Madison, the caravan leader of the Archievist family.

"Madison, why are you coming here this time of year? It's not a few days until the eternal night. ”

Madison said respectfully, "Yes, so this time we have to hurry back when we deliver the goods." ”

"Miss Kassandra is busy with things in the city this time and can't get out for a while, Miss Kassandra thanks you for providing mercenaries, these people have saved the Arguarian family a lot of trouble."

Lawrence looked at the unloading workers and slaves around him, "I'll send someone to the Old Whisperer family to change people after the winter night, and if there is a sled team, we will be there for you in about seven days after the end of the eternal night here." ”

"Yes, I will tell the master." Madison should be down.

Now the number of sled dogs and hunting dogs in the territory has increased considerably, and there are already two hundred and forty dogs, and next year there will be six or seven hundred.

If there are six or seven hundred of them this year, we will not be able to afford them, and we will have to wait for next year's grain output to further increase and the chicken and pig farms will be expanded.

At the same time, due to the increase in grain production, Haisenli and the Hokuriku Kingdom can develop more animal husbandry and fisheries, and produce more meat, eggs and milk.

The port of ice has not yet been fully occupied because of the city of Trandahoof, so there is still a certain risk in the sea route, otherwise the sea can also be carried out.

Now that the war with Tranda Hoof City is underway, the northern and southern caravans have also changed their routes, taking the route of Sterd's Territory and the Kingdom of Norsenley without passing through Tranda Hoof.

After chatting for a while, Lawrence asked about the situation in the South.

"Is the Southern Church still at war against wizards?"

"Yes." Maddison said apologetically, "The orcs you want have been burned to death by the people of the church, and many wizarding families in neighboring countries have been purged by the church recently. ”

"Now the Witch Forest faction [Hermit] and the faction of the Ancient Whisperer family [Eternal Hand] have ceased war, and they are both resisting the persecution of the church."

Lawrence felt very sorry and wondered, "What does a burned orc look like?" ”

Madison's complexion was very bad, and his body trembled uncontrollably when he lowered his head.

"A snail with an old man's head, a turtle with a bald man's head, said to be the product of an experiment conducted by a powerful wizard in order to gain eternal life."

Lawrence frowned, and suddenly felt that it was a righteous act for the Holy See to burn these wizards.

These mad wizards deserve to be burned.

It's true that they are capable, but most wizards don't obey the law, they don't have morals, they don't feel like they're human in the first place, and they don't see humans as their own kind.

There is nothing wrong with self-esteem, but the main problem is that it is uncontrollable, and all of them are not normal.

"I don't want orcs, just give me some crop seeds and technical books, but if I can't do it, I can give some cloth and food."

Lawrence gave up his illusions about orcs and the idea of wooing wizards outside.

Madison was quick to say, "This time we brought several kinds of beans, black, yellow, green, red. ”

Lawrence was intrigued and soon went over to check for new crop seeds.

The red beans are not recognized, the green beans are like pea variants, and the black beans and yellow beans are all soybean varieties that they recognize.

"Excellent! I loved the gift this time. ”

Lawrence was completely satisfied after getting the soybean seeds, "I've got some good wine here, you can bring some back, and I'll give you ten more suits of armor and fifty weapons." ”

What the Madison family lacks are warriors, especially the powerful warriors of the Church of the Stars.

"If we can, we want to hire more fighters."

Lawrence thought for a moment and quickly said: "Not this year, but next summer, I can wait until next summer, I will be more idle here, and now I have to deal with Tranda Hoof City, and I can't divide too many troops for the time being." ”

"Yes." Madison is not disappointed either, this elite army will certainly not be loaned easily.

Lawrence quickly learned something about it, now the wizards outside are hiding from the Holy Light Church, and the Holy Light Church has no intention of continuing to gnaw on its own hard bones, and it should not take revenge on those three priests in the next year or two.

It's really threatening, but I don't want to fight.

The northern barbarians, who have more than 10,000 people, are hard-core, and the wizarding families scattered in a dozen kingdoms in the south are easy characters to deal with in the eyes of the church.

After all, a wizarding family can only fight one or two wizards, and the church has professional experience in dealing with wizards, and four or five priests with a group of papal knights can destroy a wizarding family.

But if you fight Lawrence...... It's easy to hit a stone with an egg and be hacked to death with a knife.

The Old Whisperer's family is now safe and sound, not because of the spirit storm of the head of the family, Lentif, but because they have an army of barbarians who can inflict heavy losses on the Holy See Knights. (End of chapter)