Wolf King

The rocky beach a few kilometers east of Valentine's Port is a wasteland of about twenty square kilometers.

Due to the combined reasons of low tide backwashing, barren rocks, and barren land, there are not even weeds in this place, let alone planting them...even the most unchosen soybeans can't be raised, so no one will look at them. to this field.

But~ yes!

No matter how many faults there are, this is still a good land with a large enough area, only more than 20 kilometers away from the city!

The most wonderful thing is that the fief area assigned to Isaac by Viscount Pope also includes a half-moon-shaped deep-water port with a depth of 30 meters and a length of more than 600 meters!

Hmm... Viscount Pope's selfishness is clearly revealed... But since everyone has the same interests, then Viscount Pope's selfishness is naturally worthy of praise...

It has been several days since the grassroots patriarch and others returned to the grassland, and Valentine has officially entered the winter. Overnight, the eaves of the rural houses are covered with ice hooks.

Isaac, who lived in a small village near his home, woke up before dawn, woke up the regiment members, and bought food for the regiment members and hired workers with the villagers. After a casual meal, he dragged everyone to the construction site.

Compared with the winter on the prairie where dripping water turns into ice, Valentine's winter is indeed gentle...at least the snow layer is not thick and can be easily dug up, and the cold wind is not howling all day long, and even going out is not necessary to attend. Like extreme challenges.

Green smoke rose from the lime kiln, and the adventurers waved a sledgehammer to smash the gray-white limestone, and then the workers sent it into the kiln for calcination. The burned lime powder was mixed with crushed stones and sand from the coast. It is a good material for building a house.

There is no designated steel bar, but anyway, when building bungalows, wood can be used instead... Some MSG factory workers who came to earn extra money have experience in building factories, and they are like ready-made masters in construction.

It's a pity that the human race is not as beastly as the orc race. In this weather, it is impossible to dig a decent foundation, so we can only deal with it...

When Brother Knight rushed to Isaac's fief with the new batch of recruited workers, two rows of simple one-story houses had already been built, and even the thatched roof was pressed with specially dug stone slabs.

Let the younger brother and others arrange for the workers to work, Edward, the elder brother of the knight brothers, pulled Isaac aside, and whispered: "If we continue to recruit people like this, our money will not be able to withstand it, Isaac, although We only pay one worker a salary of four silver coins, but it is not a small number to manage their food and drink every day... Valentine’s food has not increased in price yet, but it is only a matter of time before we continue to buy it like this.”

"Don't worry, Ms. Margaret (officer of the Transport Department of the Adventurer's Association) just sent someone to report yesterday that the vermicelli on the grassland has been shipped, and it can be shipped in at most ten days. We can survive these ten days." ’” Isaac said with a smile.

"That's good." Edward heaved a sigh of relief. He is a very frugal person. The daily food consumption of more than a thousand workers in gold coins made him wake up with pain in his sleep.

"Relax, Edward, the teacher let us do it freely, and gave us such great support, we just have to do it with confidence and boldness." Isaac was quite open-minded, comforting, "The teacher is It is said that we are allowed to make mistakes and support us to try and make mistakes, so what do we have to be afraid of?"

Edward stared at Isaac strangely for a few seconds, and couldn't help but feel a little sour in his tone: "I really don't know what kind of luck you have had, why would a sage like Mr. Ayun accept you as his disciple?" ?”

"You envy Edward, don't you!" Isaac laughed and patted Edward on the shoulder.

Two days later, Alex came to the fief with a man wrapped like a zongzi riding a chocobo borrowed from the Adventurer's Association. After yelling at the construction site for a long time, he found Isaac who was covered in mud and water. The people went to the centralized housing that had been repaired first.

"The famous architects in the city are either supported by nobles, or they are nobles themselves. I asked my friends from the Hunter Association to help me. After searching for several days in the northern part of the lower city, I finally found this one." On the way, Alex quickly introduced Speaking of the architect he hired, "Speaking of which, this one is a bit like you, Isaac, and his family is also a Valentine nobleman, but because of the disharmony with his family, he gave some gold coins when he became an adult. On the other hand, it’s not bad, it’s said that he once served Philip, the former city lord, and he presided over the renovation of Philip’s mansion.”

"How could such a person be reduced to the lower city?" Isaac was surprised.

Alex was a little confused: "How should I put it—you'll understand when you see the person." After a pause, he added, "When this person served Earl Philip, he seriously offended Master Marcus."

Isaac let out an "oh", as if he understood something... Marcus Philip is an idiot who ranks among the top three idiots Isaac has ever seen, and his stupidity is so amazing that any normal person would guess No interest in fussing with the scum; the builder was able to offend the earl's idiot son so badly, obviously, that he must be in a bad temper.

This is not a big problem for Isaac. In terms of bad temper, who is better than the green dragon in the fire department... I have seen Mr. Ayun stroke the green dragon with its hair (scales) many times, Isaac Let's not talk about the essence of learning, let's take pictures of cats and tigers.

It wasn't until he and Alex walked into the room used as the fief construction planning office that Isaac realized how wrong he was...

The architect, who was sitting in front of the fireplace to keep warm, was wearing cotton clothes and a hooded cloak and turned his head when he heard the movement. Under the somewhat greasy and faded hood, there was actually a rather beautiful and moving face——Isaac I have dealt with forest elves a lot, and this rare female architect is actually better-looking than ordinary forest elf males (...)!

It turned out to be another level of "offending"... Isaac realized it in his heart, his face remained unchanged, and he took off his warm fur hat when he entered the house, and nodded politely: "Hi, I'm Isa K Robbins."

The architect stood up, and instead of raising his skirt to salute like ordinary women, he extended his hand generously: "Hello, Knight Robbins, I'm Sue Gallagher."

Isaac quickly reached out to shake hands with her, and when he touched the other's palm, Isaac was a little dazed... Looking at her appearance and body, she was clearly a young woman under 30 years old, but Sue Gallagher's hands were as rough as a professional Same as the washerwoman over three years old.

The two sides sat down, Sue Gallagher didn't talk nonsense, and asked, "I heard that Knight Robbins wants to build a large theater in your fief?"

"Yes, Ms. Gallagher."

Gallagher nodded, his eyes sparkling: "Your fief is not far from the city, but it's not close either. I'm sorry to ask, why did you build a theater in such a remote wilderness?"

Alex silently turned his head away.

Isaac: "..."

Just... in front of the fief owner saying that his fief is a remote wilderness... Isaac suddenly felt that his previous guess was not completely wrong.

"Sorry, maybe my friend Alex didn't explain it clearly before. In fact, I hope that what I want to build in my fief is not just a grand theater, but a seaside amusement park integrating leisure, entertainment, food and lodging." Aisa Ke's expression remained unchanged, and he explained with a smile, "My teacher is Ayun, a sage from the grassland tribe on the other side of the Inner Sea. The city with the most convenient sea transportation, my teacher supported me to build an amusement park here that can receive visitors of all nationalities. Our target customers are not just residents of Valentine. Of course, the facilities of the amusement park are also suitable for residents of Valentine If it is open, we will still welcome the villagers in the surrounding villages and towns."

There is no such thing as tourism in this world. The reason is naturally that the cost of travel is too high... Except for those from the Bard Association who rely on travel for food, the rest are either nobles or spellcasters, or those who have mines at home. .

So why did Xiao Yun support Isaac to come to Valentine to make a quick land toss or an amusement park?The reason is simple—to stand firm in any industry name that does not conflict with local merchants and nobles, and then try to steal... er... "Learn from and learn from" the shipbuilding technology of the Kingdom of Cronin!

In other words, Isaac is the senior spy that Xiao Yun sent to Valentine...

Xiao Yun and Isaac discussed how to break into the high society of the Kingdom of Cronin and get into the circle of upper-class aristocrats. It can be said that they met and discussed for several days and nights; Although Ke is a bit handsome, he is really not to the extent that he can charm noble ladies. After thinking about it, he can only do it from the artistic side.

Valentine is not a tourist city, but the City of Liberty is indeed not called for nothing. Every winter, countless adventurers who travel all over the mainland gather here to spend the winter, and there are countless maritime merchants; build a fresh amusement park Attract people, spread Isaac's reputation as a "playwright artist" with Xiao Yun's play, and spread it through the mouths of adventurers and merchants. At that time, Isaac will be able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, only to see who hooked~

Why did it take such a lot of trouble? First, it was natural to send Isaac under the noses of the nobles of the Cronin Kingdom so that they could hook up with them. Second, Xiao Yun had already made his name in "Travel to the Mainland" and let his disciples go My own old road lacks such a sense of shock...

Of course, the well-known teacher Ayun is also a good halo for Isaac, at least the eyes of this unconventional female architect in front of me lit up after listening to Isaac's explanation: "Xian Ayun? Is it Ayun, the sage of the Snow Wolf Clan?"

"Yes, ma'am." Isaac smiled.

Sue Gallagher leaned forward unconsciously, obviously very interested in it: "It turns out that Knight Robbins is the disciple of the sage Ayun, so there must be something extraordinary about this theater?"

Isaac smiled reservedly, and said, "The plays in the Grand Theater will be performed by me myself."

Ms. Gallagher took a slight breath of cold air, her eyes sparkling: "The sage Ayun is very good at writing travel notes, and the Robbins knight under his guidance is good at plays?"

Isaac got up, opened the filing cabinet next to his desk, took out a script bound with braided thread and handed it to Gallagher: "If our Grand Theater can be completed properly, then I hope that the first play in the Grand Theater will It's Cinderella."

Gallagher eagerly took the script, lowered his head and looked through...

Isaac smiled and waited for the other party with a confident expression, not caring about the awkward look cast by Alex next to him...

The script of "Cinderella" is based on the popular bedtime stories in the Fire Department, and on the basis of the "original work", the house fight scene is added again - Cinderella's father does not know where the mother is resurrected, and Cinderella The girl's stepmother started a war between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the stepmother faked pregnancy to punish the old lady. Cinderella cleverly passed the crime of causing the stepmother's "miscarriage" to the step-sister, and the old lady regretted forcing the obedient daughter-in-law in front to die. Cinderella's father, a little nobleman who is like a tool man, is played by the women at home and applauded by the woman in the top position... etc. Modern TV dramas, routines played badly in ancient costumes, etc., are all the key performances in the first half of this play role.

This kind of drama of building a dojo in a snail shell... is a bit unrealistic in essence, so in the middle of the play, the part of participating in the prince's blind date ball was revised, and changed to foreign enemies invading, the little noble father hanging on the battlefield; Cinderella standing up And organize the townspeople to fight against the enemy, use the wisdom of house fighting to balance the complex relationship between the militia in the town, and finally fight off the enemy bravely, sublimating the concept of the play to a high level where women can hold up half the sky in order to protect their hometown...

At the ending, in order to improve his character, Xiao Yun frantically took the route of "kneeling in the truth"—Cinderella's fate was similar to that of Joan of Arc. The uncles regarded her as an enemy, so the uncles colluded with the priests in the town and accused Cinderella of being possessed by demons; in the last scene, Cinderella was tied up in the center of the town square she tried to protect, and the townspeople she had tried to protect spit at her Spitting, throwing stones, each of them added firewood to the fire and burned the unwilling her to death...

At that time, when Xiao Yun and Isaac's master and apprentice revised the story drastically, Isaac firmly disagreed with the ending, but Xiao Yun easily convinced him that the Cronin Kingdom is one of the Northern Federations. , What was the federation first established for?What's wrong with black old rivals in works of art?

This is political correctness, stupid apprentice!

So Isaac gave in...

When Sue Gallagher read the first half of the script, she didn't think so, but when she saw the middle part, her expression became serious. When it came to the second half, especially the part where Cinderella was burned to death, she gritted her teeth and cried again. It's crazy...

Carefully putting down the script, Ms. Gallagher stood up, walked to Isaac, held the hand of the sage disciple, and sincerely said, "In the name of Algernon, I, Sue Gallagher, will I have learned all my life to build you the best grand theater in Cronin, Robbins Knight."

Isaac was smiling, and an impolite thought popped up in his heart—isn’t Algernon the god of art, this architect is indeed a young man...

Watching the architect go to the construction site to observe and draw the theater design with the momentum of going to the battlefield with a pipe pen, drawing book and measuring tools, Alex silently looked at Isaac.

"Just say what you want to say, Alex, holding it in for a long time will hurt our relationship." Isaac said.

The corner of Alex's mouth twitched: "I just think... after you became Mr. Ayun's disciple, you have become a bit more... You were not like this before, um, you used to always talk about decency of."

Isaac smiled slightly, disapprovingly: "This is because Mr. Ayun told me with practical actions that you can't get things done just by being decent."

Xiao Yun is very attentive in teaching any disciple. After accepting Isaac, he also used the examples of himself and Carlisle to enlighten Isaac.

Alex's expression was complicated: "I think Mr. Ayun's words are very reasonable, but you also...well, how should I put it, did you accept it too quickly!"

Isaac laughed: "Let's not talk about this, how is Harris and the others progressing in finding actors in the city?"

The snow wolves went back to the grassland, but Harris and the snakes stayed here to help.

"Those aristocrats who were about to run away sold third-rate actors. Harris asked his friends in the Bards Association for help. After asking several companies, they couldn't find any suitable ones." Ali said, "I don't think there is any need to be obsessed with Wouldn't it be very appropriate for a human actor, such as Harris, to play the evil stepmother?"

"...You can tell him that yourself."

"No, I can't beat him."

On the grassland, the Fire Department.

It took more than a month of work (most of the time was spent on "getting lost") to deliver the vermicelli in the dungeon, and by the way brought more than 4000 dwarves and more than 1000 goblins to the hilly new area (theoretically, the number of goblins is more than that of gray dwarves, but the goblins really Difficult to catch), Xiao Yun returned to the tribe with his warriors after he had retired.

Lan Guo has a backlog of things in his hands, and the grassroots patriarch who can discuss with him is not there, so he has long been devastated; when he heard that Ayun and the large army of soldiers returned, he limped out to greet him...then he was stunned.

"Uh... Ah Yun, this is it?" Lan Guo raised her hand and pointed to the rope Xiao Yun was holding in disbelief... At the other end of the rope was tied a white-skinned snow elf who looked like a snow elf. But no pointy ears, nor red pupils, strange humanoids.

"This one, it's from the battle tree." Xiao Yun pulled the rope, and the battle tree staggered and glared fiercely at Xiao Yun, "Don't look ugly, our tribe really needs this guy."

"...Ugly?" Lan Guo asked suspiciously.

Rosemary next to him stretched out his hand to pinch the face of the Battle Tree, and pulled it a little harder, and the facial features that were not bad in the humanoid form of the Battle Tree were pulled into a freak...

"Holy shit, so ugly!" Lan Guo couldn't help but took half a step back.

"Shut it up in an empty shed." Xiao Yun casually handed the rope to Rosemary, and pulled the blue fruit to the activity room, "How is the tribe during this time, Balk's father Oston Nothing happened, right?"

"It's really troublesome." Lan Guo is not surprised at all why Xiao Yun opened his mouth and mentioned Auston, "There is a strike all day long, last time I slipped out of the flour mill branch without watching, Qingyan, Ayue and the others are useless It took a long time to find him."

"Isn't it that you can't even fly high, and you can still make trouble like this?" Xiao Yun was surprised.

"He flew into Balk's house, hid in the place where Balk hid his snacks..."

The corners of Xiao Yun's mouth twitched slightly: "What's the matter? Could it be that the money that should have been paid to him was not paid to him—wait, isn't this old dragon only going in and out again?"

"That's right! He's still relying on Balk to eat and drink from Balk! Balk has a lot of grievances, and it takes a lot of effort to appease him." Lan Guo sighed.

Xiao Yun: "..."

"Forget it, their father and son's affairs are resolved by themselves." Xiao Yun was too lazy to do any mediation work, "In view of Auston's special situation, let him adjust the rule of never deducting salary in our tribe and add an item Enter: 'Green Dragon's bonus will be deducted once for absenteeism, bonuses will be deducted for three absenteeisms, and wages will be deducted for five times'."

Lan Guo: "...Uh, isn't this a bit cruel?"

"Mm - add an explanation in front of absenteeism, 'unexcused absenteeism unless it is force majeure'." Xiao Yun said seriously.

The blue fruit is no longer hairy...

Rosemary led the fighting tree to the shed area, found an open space where sweet potatoes had just been harvested, looked around, tied one end of the rope to the gate, pointed to the loosened soil and said to the fighting tree: "Put your feet on it." go in."

Fighting Tree ignored him and rolled his eyes arrogantly.

Rosemary said emotionlessly: "You didn't run away on the way here, so don't even think about it when you're all in our tribe. There are more Blackstone tribes in the hilly new area. It's a matter of minutes to burn you."

Fighting Tree was silent for a moment, then lifted up its toeless foot aggrievedly, and inserted it into the soil. The part below the neck gradually turned into vines of varying thickness and length, spreading to the surroundings and walls, and its head turned into a huge flower. buds of...

It’s about half a day’s journey from Qiuling New District to Huoyanbu. This journey can freeze the battle tree enough. The soft and "nutrient-rich" soil, suitable temperature and warm walls in the greenhouse make the battle tree very comfortable. Close it The petals of the flowers open and bloom layer by layer.

Rosemary tied the loose rope to the flower stalk and wound it layer by layer for a long length, then clapped her hands reassuringly and walked out of the shed.

When the gate was closed, the blooming giant flower disk turned around and "stared" at the door, and the huge leaves on the vines trembled, as if silently speaking harsh words to Rosemary's back.

As a plant, it naturally needs water and soil to nourish it... Even this "spirited" fighting tree can't stand it if it has been away from the soil for so long; the moist air, the suitable temperature, and the glass roof on the top of the greenhouse The sunlight that came in and couldn't be felt in the underground world made the battle tree intoxicated in a short while, and the leaves that were a little sluggish also stood up energetically.

It's a pity that the time of comfort is always too short, and the battle tree has only relaxed for a long time, and the door of the shed is pushed open, and the devil snow wolf cub that makes the battle tree hate and fear comes in with a few fellow clansmen.

"This is the battle tree that everyone wants to manage." Xiao Yun pointed to the giant flower and said, "The fruit it bears is in the shape of a three-dimensional rectangle. , or you will get hurt."

"Understood." One-armed warrior Ah nodded, he had eaten the fruit of the battle tree before.

"The seeds of the battle tree will be sown in a while. We have never planted this thing. We can refer to the opinions of the battle tree when planting." Xiao Yun took out the seeds as thick as the little finger from the leather bag and showed them to Ah Yi and the others, "For example Say, when watering, first ask the battle tree if the soil moisture is enough, if it is enough, shake one leaf, if not enough, shake two leaves; if it ignores people, just bring firewood and black stones to the side, and it will cooperate."

A first-class clansman: "??"

Battle Tree: "..."

"Did you hear that? You heard the reply." Xiao Yun shouted towards the battle tree.

The battle tree was silent for a few seconds...shaking all the leaves aggrievedly.

There is no wind in the greenhouse, and the windless and automatic leaves make it very strange for the people of the clan to see...

"Your clansmen behind us are all dead halfway, and now we can only hope to use your seeds and the seeds of your clansmen to grow new battle trees." Xiao Yun put on a more gentle tone, "Our Snow Wolf Clan also It's not a devil, if you cooperate well, we are happy to see your battle tree group grow stronger."

Battle Tree: "..."

I believe in you! !