Chapter 16: The First Snow

Chapter 16 The First Snow
The first snowfall of winter had just fallen when ten mighty and majestic chest-armored cavalrymen with their heads held high, carrying the flag of the Hydra family, escorted the arrival of five loaded carriages, and the traces they left behind were soon covered by the growing wind and snow.

Standing on the castle at this time a glance, before the eyes of a white blanket, lead gray heavy clouds by the whistling cold wind dead pressure stick to the ground constantly rolling, spreading a large large snowflakes, so that a person for a time can not distinguish the sky how high and how thick, and more do not know when this blizzard is a head.

Northland winter weather is so bad, but in order to avoid revealing the cracks, in Owen’s order, the caravan is really outside around three days, to see the fast snow before hurrying to the castle, so the long-distance travel fatigue, wear and tear of the vehicle, these can not be false.

Owen this grandson in order to montmayor a person is really willing to spend money, I do not know is really necessary, or he himself and his own battle of wits, like a married man will instinctively hide part of the extra income, I am afraid that even his own can not say, perhaps he is just in order to cover their own inner bewilderment, purely for themselves to find something to do.

The arrival of the caravan breathed new life into the territory, the knight-like chest-armored cavalry cheered everyone up because it was a symbol of strength, and the supplies delivered represented a guarantee of survival for the territory to be able to get through this cold winter more peacefully.

Although there were many people from the castle, the long wooden huts were ready-made, the warm stables were piled up with hay, the grooms prepared warm water neatly, and the hay was mixed with bean powder and coarse salt, which was enough to allow the horses to recover their strength quickly without damaging their bodies due to the long distance traveled.

Except for the trouble of counting the supplies, the peasants who placed the chest-armored cavalry to follow them did not have to work hard, and they soon ate freshly baked bread and hot soup, and then they could have a good night’s sleep.

Castle once again fell into a calm, about the soldiers and the source of supplies Owen did not say, Maya also very tacit understanding did not ask, we are all adults, you have me in the night in the honey in the oil, but when it comes to the daytime to do the right thing, that is each do their own, do not interfere with each other, this is called the mature side of adults.

Owen is helpless, because he does not want to lie, is not good at lying people, and do not want to hide anything, but the existence of the system is related to their own life and death, by him there is not the slightest carelessness, forced to do nothing, he can only use more troublesome and more cumbersome way to cover up.

The problem is that the system of soldiers and supplies itself is out of thin air, he must find a reasonable source or excuse for these, but he is limited to the territory, what he can do at the moment is to do a simple guide, so that people mistakenly think that HYDRA family has left a few hands or to get the secret support of certain forces.

Sounds unreliable, but even if the last life of infotainment is so developed, really said that crossing the golden finger or something no one will believe, not to mention the people of this world, so as long as you leave a little bit of clues, they will be able to make up eighty episodes out of you, not to mention that Owen is not only in the outside of the establishment of a temporary stronghold, but also used the division of the management, as much as possible to avoid revealing the bottom.

Now in the territory, as the lord Owen has the supreme right, he is responsible for determining the direction of development, provide resources and manpower.

As the second-in-command, Maya was the project leader, mainly to utilize the resources and manpower more rationally and efficiently, and to stop Owen from changing the development direction at will.

Char, as Owen’s confidant, was in charge of the soldiers in the territory, and she accomplished this task well.

As for Char’s status as a maid, the vast majority of the territory’s soldiers came from the system, and Owen’s orders were above all else, so with his appointment, command was not a problem.

With such a threefold division of power, even if Maya had her heart set on it, it would be difficult to cross over the terms of reference Owen had set for her involving other aspects.

Owen didn’t know how he would handle it, but this was the best he could think of. However, everything has come to a standstill with the snow falling thicker and thicker, the whole world is like hitting the pause button, no one can be seen anymore, even the birds and animals have long been extinct.

In the most prosperous and powerful imperial capital, there are people freezing to death every winter, not to mention the cold northern land, especially serfs, the ground nest is not a warm place, lack of food and clothing, at least one-third of the serfs in the spring of each year can no longer climb out, directly filled with soil and buried.

In fact, if it were not for the world’s more tenacious life force, a snow down basically no one alive, after all, even the bears in hibernation time still have to add a fat.

The good thing is that Owen made preparations in advance, the village has become a lot more perfect, the original diagonally built grass hut into a mud wall and grass roof of the simple farmhouse, although it is not good-looking, the inside is also low and dim, but it is very practical, can maximize the retention of heat.

Mud walls can last a long time in the northern part of the country where there is little rain, the thick grass roof can effectively block the wind and snow, and the short building is also conducive to heat preservation, so as long as you light up a small campfire in the house, wrapped in a shredded leather and rags sewn clothes nestled in the haystacks, at least you won’t be able to get up after a nap.

Moreover, Owen had issued sufficient winter food and firewood, the staple food was rye and crushed black beans, the side dishes were onions, round vegetables and dried wild vegetables, and there was also a small jar of precious meat oil and salt, although not much, it was enough to ensure that they could survive in the cold winter, or at least most of them could survive.

Unfortunately, the walls of the castle still had not been built, but they had been cleared for a long distance.

The amount of work was also not small, and could not be done by a dozen or so bandits and laborers alone, mainly because Owen exchanged another twenty peasants from the Imperial Era, and they were the main workforce.

Compared to the thin serfs and the reluctant robbers, the peasants of the Imperial Era had craftsmanship and worked hard, together with the metal tools from the blacksmith store, the efficiency was not low.

Unfortunately, it was just a matter of cleaning up, but to completely build the wall, it would take at least hundreds of people to be efficient enough, and it would have to be in the spring when the flowers bloomed, or else the frozen hard ground would make people despair.

Although the wall was not built, but the castle has changed a lot, the ground was leveled, and some places were even paved with stone slabs, originally there were only three longhouses, but now it was expanded to ten, and built the stables and sheep pens, the smithy in the corner was clanging from morning to night, and the bakery next door was also cooking, which made this place a little more energetic.

The interior of the castle has been simply repaired, with carpets, draperies, and decorations that give the castle its historical flavor and make it look less like an archaeological site.

Busy for a long time Owen finally have time to breathe, this half year he constantly stirring brain juice, trying to find gold from inside, but unfortunately the wisdom of the precipitation is not enough, just like the tofu brain how to stir again can not be turned abalone, poor him can only rely on the past life of which a little insight to plan the development of the territory, the results of the real implementation of the time to realize that he took the hair in exchange for the stuff with the same as the shit.

As a certain author painstakingly get hundreds of thousands of words of the outline, the results just after a hundred chapters on the subject, or change can not be changed back to the kind of, suddenly destroyed the heart of the world.

(End of chapter)