Warlord: King of All Clans
Chapter 381 Heavy Snow
After Kroger left, the female ogre and her cub Obi were temporarily left in the lord's house.
Sure enough, Leo's consideration was correct, and Olivia's decision was also correct. Obi had not been weaned at all, and if his biological mother was not kept, no one even knew what he could eat.
Obi's biological mother has no real name. The tribesmen call her Am. Simple syllable names like this are the most common names for ogres. Names like "Krog" only belong to clan leaders with names and surnames.
Am could not speak human language very well and only knew a few simple words, but the people in the big house were amazed to find that Am, who had just been civilized from primitive society, could actually weave, cook and carve.
And make tea!
The ogre's tea-making skills are better than the little maid Elodie's, and his cooking skills are better than the cook's!
She can also use simple knives to carve various daily utensils such as wooden plates, wooden cups, wooden barrels, wooden pestles, and all kinds of strange and weird things.
The ogre with two heads is actually not stupid at all, but all his intelligence was used to ensure his survival.
In just one year, Eminem learned many human life skills by observing.
So when she was in the lord's mansion, she always wanted to take charge of the housework and integrate into the family.
However, her weight of nearly a thousand pounds caused the wooden floor to make a deafening noise every time her big feet touched the ground, scaring the cubs in the basement dormitory into howling in terror.
So the maid confined her to the kitchen and asked her to help the cook take care of the kitchen to avoid accidentally stepping on the green-skinned cubs crawling around.
The only bad thing was that every time she served food to everyone, the left head would shout "Am's delicious food!", while the right head would glare at everyone fiercely.
If anyone didn't finish eating, the left side of her head would be sad and the right side would be angry, feeling unappreciated.
Is the food I cook so bad? I can’t even finish a palm-sized piece!
And the food cooked by the ogre chef does taste good, but there still needs to be a human cook to supervise her to prevent her from putting some special ingredients into the stew pot.
For example, Am really wanted to throw a green cub in to try it out. If that didn't work, those little dog-headed people who had just returned home for the New Year would also do.
In her opinion, since the lord's house had so many cubs, it would be okay to eat one occasionally to try something new.
But three days later, the mother and son were unable to leave. The continuous heavy snow completely blocked the road, and all production in Hewan came to a standstill.
The snow outside was at least three feet deep. Olivia took the little maid and the Rose Knight and kept going out to see the snow.
This is certainly not fun. As a girl who grew up on the banks of the Arctic Ice River, she spends half of every year with snow and has long been accustomed to it.
There were a few Rose Knights from the South Territory. Some of them had never seen snow in their lives before coming to the North Territory. Now they followed the mistress, shouting and yelling like little girls, even more childish than the little maid Elodie.
Without being taught, the girls spontaneously learned how to make snowmen and have snowball fights.
The climate in the Isenbol area is far superior to that of the Arctic Glaciers. The number of days with snow in winter does not exceed one month each year, and the permafrost is very shallow, which is very suitable for farming.
Such snow accumulation occurs once in ten years, if not once in a hundred years.
Although it is said that auspicious snow means a good harvest, too low a temperature and too much snow will lead to the formation of too thick permafrost, reducing winter wheat production and affecting land reclamation after the spring.
For other projects and industries, there will be no problem if they are postponed for one or two months, but if land reclamation and spring sowing are postponed for one or two months, grain production will drop sharply.
For agricultural civilization, this is undoubtedly a disaster.
Those knight territories with stable ecosystems can still barely support themselves, but territories like River Bay, which have been absorbing refugees and expanding aggressively, have been greatly affected.
The population of other knights' territories was limited, and the output of the land could not feed the people, so they resorted to gathering, hunting, and robbing, and then starved 10% to 20% of the population to death, and they could get through a small disaster.
But for a place like Hewan where the population is relatively dense and a small part of the food is imported, if one or two adults starve to death, the whole place will be filled with starving people.
Even if no one starved to death, for every additional silver coin in Isembol's food bag, the expenditure of the River Bay Lord's Mansion would increase by hundreds of gold coins.
Olivia is no longer the naive country girl she used to be. Two years of life as a mistress have enabled her to master a large amount of knowledge that ordinary people at the bottom of society cannot grasp. She also has a longer-term vision and a greater sense of crisis than the average small lord.
On the contrary, Leo was more calm and had fun around the river bend every day.
In the warm big house, he asked Obi to hold his hands and feet, then pushed him forward and rolled. After rolling a few meters, he knocked over a row of green-skinned cubs.
This alien bowling ball immediately became popular in the Lord's House. Both Freya and Elodi, the contestants, and Obi and the green-skinned cubs, who were the game props, were extremely happy.
Sometimes the Rose Knights couldn't help but take action, but no one could surpass Leo's level. They were still too restrained and didn't dare to use too much force.
Am was very happy to see that his son and the cubs of River Bay were getting along so well, and he strongly suggested that if everyone couldn't push Obie, they should just kick him, but no one took it seriously.
When Olivia was observing the snow conditions, she would also see Leo floating cross-legged on the snow and flying forward.
Freya, who was under him, was buried in the snow. She was carrying Leo and running around in the snow headfirst until she hit something and overturned.
Of course, Freya's willingness to let Leo ride her was never free. After the car overturned, it was Leo's turn to be the mount.
Leo carried Freya on his head and played in the snow for a long time before he walked to Olivia and advised her, "Don't worry, it's just a snowfall, not a natural disaster. It might stop in a few days. If you want to worry, you have to wait until spring comes."
There is no point in worrying, they have already done their best and shouldered responsibilities far beyond those of the lords of this era. The remaining natural and man-made disasters can only be dealt with flexibly.
Seeing that Olivia was still worried, Leo had to give her some advice, "Aren't you just worried about not having enough food? Do you know where the lower reaches of Isenbor are?"
During the campaign to the north, Leo obtained a new map of the empire from the Grand Duke of the North and made up for his lack of knowledge on the geography of other worlds.
Although the map of the Grand Duke of the North is not as accurate as modern maps, it is at least the configuration of the world's top forces. With the support of the extraordinary system, it is much more reliable than medieval maps.
Now this big map is hanging in Olivia's small office, allowing the members of the big house to learn to open their eyes and see the world.
Moreover, a lot of copies were made and used as valuable gifts for socializing among nobles.
For a military noble like Rigolav, the high-definition map is simply a treasure and a perfect work of art.
Olivia would look at the map when she had nothing to do, curious about the outside world. When she heard Leo's question, she hesitated and asked, "Asbro City in Beboos?"
"Further down."
"Anhurst City of Odalov?"
"Right. And guess who I am?"
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