Spirit summons? I want to do it myself!

Liduo lives in a small village, built on a small hill. The bottom of the hill is wide and round, and the top is flat, looking like an inverted shallow sea bowl from a distance. The hill is not very high, only about fifty meters. There are several stone slabs built from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill. Houses are scattered on both sides of the road, all of which are stone houses. They look very solid. There are about eighty households. In front of and behind the houses, except for a few vegetable plots, there are trees.

The fields in the village spread outward around the hills, and then stopped abruptly at a distance from the mountains and rivers in the distance. Except for a few passages left at the edges, they were all planted with a kind of tall, hard, long-thorned, and almost leafless thorny plant as a fence wall, and the defense value seemed quite good.

Most of the villages in this world were not built on the mountains or near the water like on the Blue Star. Those that dared to do so were all large cities or military fortresses with strong martial virtues. The reason was nothing more than to guard against magical beasts or monsters running out of the mountains or rivers.

Mountains and rivers are very dangerous for villages without sufficient military power. In addition to monsters and demons, some powerful wild beasts can also cause considerable harm to ordinary villagers. Leaving a certain distance is to leave a buffer zone for the village, so that early warning and loss can be reduced. The village patrol team will regularly clean up the buffer zone, and will send people to patrol and guard the village and fields every night. Even so, there will occasionally be fish that slip through the net, and there will be monster invasions every once in a while, which can be as short as a few months or as long as three to five years.

There is a spring on the top of the hill. The villagers dug wells and built pools here for drinking and living. Of course, there are many springs at the foot of the mountain, and pools have been dug, but the water quality is not as good as that at the top of the mountain. If people at the foot of the mountain find it troublesome to carry water up the mountain, they will get water here. The irrigation of the fields in the village depends on the streams flowing from the distant mountains or the water in the canals led from the big rivers. These streams and canals have always been one of the key areas patrolled by the patrol team.

In addition to the spring, there is a large flat land on the top of the mountain, with the spring roughly in the center. The flat land on one side is divided into several pieces, all paved with stone slabs, used as the village's sunbathing ground and the square for daily gatherings. On the other side of the flat land, a magnificent stone house was built, covering a large area of ​​nearly 2,000 square meters, occupying the entire flat land on this side. There is only one family on the entire top of the mountain, and that is the village chief's family.

The village chief's family is the only family with a surname in the whole village. The name of the village, Huangshi Village, is named after the surname of the village chief. The origin of Huangshi Village is closely related to the power inherited by the village chief's family, which has been around for more than 300 years. The whole village was built relying on the power of the Huangshi clan. The stone houses in the village are made of a kind of yellow stone, which is a byproduct of the Huangshi clan's inherited power.

Therefore, the Huangshi clan is not only the ruler of Huangshi Village, but also the protector of Huangshi Village. The village chief has always been the clan leader of the Huangshi clan. Most of the members of the patrol team are young and strong people of the Huangshi clan, plus some villagers with relatively high martial arts values.

More than 300 years ago, the ancestors of the Huangshi clan brought the reclamation order and clan order with the clan members and a small number of followers to choose this place, then drove away wild beasts and monsters, built enclosures, and reclaimed fields. The clansmen of the followers settled here, and other people who came here for the reputation rented the fields of the Huangshi clan and paid 50% of the harvest to the Huangshi clan as rent and protection fees every year. If someone in the family serves in the patrol team, they only need to pay 30% during their tenure. Therefore, whenever the village patrol team selects members, the villagers are very active, even if they have to face danger in the patrol team, of course, there will be rewards for meritorious service.

After paying a certain price, the villagers could choose a place on the hill where the Huangshi clan built their stone houses and build their own stone houses, and then reclaim the land outside the fields reclaimed by the Huangshi clan. Over the past three hundred years, the Huangshi Village has gradually taken shape. Now it can no longer be expanded. If it wants to expand further, it can only move to distant mountains or rivers, which is beyond the protection range of the Huangshi clan, and the loss outweighs the gain.

The total area of ​​Huangshi Village is about four square kilometers, which is a little more than one kilometer in radius with the hill as the center. Although there are only about eighty households, there are nearly 1000 people, of which about half are from the Huangshi clan. In general, the per capita arable area of ​​Huangshi Village is still quite considerable, and it is one of the best in the surrounding villages.

The situation of several villages adjacent to Huangshi Village is similar. They were all established in the same period as Huangshi Village, and the names of the villages are also related to the families that established the villages. More than 300 years ago, this area was all wasteland. Then some soldiers of a certain legion who had made meritorious contributions but were facing retirement received clan orders and reclamation orders to come here to open up wasteland and build villages. These villages were rewarded to their territories, and at the same time, they also increased the actual control area of ​​the empire.

The mountain in the distance is called Shiqing Mountain, and the river is called Baishui River. The twenty or so villages built between the east side of Shiqing Mountain and the Baishui River form a small town called Baishi Town, which is located twenty miles away from Huangshi Village. Baishi Town is one of the dozens of towns under the jurisdiction of the nearest main city, Qingyan City.

For most villagers, they may not leave the village many times a year. Even if they do, it is to visit relatives in nearby villages or go to the town to shop or do business. Many people have never been to the main city in their lives and don’t even know its name. The life of ordinary people is basically like this, and you can predict the end at a glance.

After all, ordinary people have to work hard to survive and have little free time. Moreover, travel in this world is not as safe and convenient as on the blue planet. There are many areas beyond human control between villages and towns. Although they are not as dangerous as Shi Qingshan, if there is no certain military protection, it is very likely that "the hero will never return once he leaves." Therefore, those who dare to walk alone in the wild either have something to rely on or are forced to do so.

Every month, the Huangshi tribe would organize young and strong people in the tribe to go to the town, accompanied by patrol members, to buy supplies needed by the tribe, and also buy some extra, some of which would be sold to the villagers as commodities and some as reserves. This was also the monthly travel time for the villagers, and the Huangshi tribe would still provide this convenience for the villagers.

It can be said that the Huangshi clan has a very good reputation in the surrounding villages. Even though there are always a few bad apples in a large clan, it has not shaken everyone's respect for it.

First, the power of the Huangshi family has not declined so far, and the protection of the village is quite strong. Although there have been occasional damages over the past three hundred years, there have been no major casualties, and the compensation has been adequate.

Second, the Huangshi family did not impose heavy taxes or levies on the villagers. They always collected 10% tax on their own land and 50% on rented land. If there were family members on the patrol team, they would get further reductions. The goods sold to the villagers were only slightly marked up on the original price.

Third, the Huangshi family also provided convenience to the villagers within their ability, and the price was reasonable, such as stones for the villagers to build houses, literacy schools, and clinics in the village. Some infrastructure was free, such as drying yards, canals, and wells. Stone slabs were built in the village and in the fields, all of which were the work of the Huangshi family. Not all families who built villages have this ability and heart.

Therefore, the life of the villagers in Huangshi Village is quite enviable in the nearby villages, and girls from nearby villages are willing to marry into Huangshi Village. This can be seen from the increase in the village population from less than 1000 people at the beginning to nearly people today.

Liduo's house is located on the upper half of the mountain. Liduo's ancestors were followers of the Yellowstone clan, but later the inheritance was cut off. Currently, they only own ten acres of land. None of the four members of the family serve on the patrol team, and their life in the village is not as good as those of the rich but better than those of the poor.

Given that this world is quite dangerous, everyone in the village knows how to stick together for warmth. On weekdays, they help each other and fight against monster invasions together. There are no top-notch people in the village. In short, this novice has an ordinary start, but Lido is already very satisfied.