Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 79 The Forehead

At ten o'clock the next morning, Li Wei woke up from a deep sleep. The room was empty. When she went out, she saw that the sun was shining brightly, warm and comfortable, and even the breeze carried a hint of spring.

In the distance, you can even see a small white butterfly fluttering about.

In the courtyard, Leon took off his wolfskin coat and was digging the foundation shirtless. He was preparing to build a warehouse, so he had to lay a good foundation first, taking into account various conditions such as rodent control, insect control, moisture control, and theft prevention.

In the blacksmith shop to the south, Penny and Margaret were hammering away, probably forging new, better tools. They couldn't compromise on anything, whether it was making a one-star leather armor or a one-star composite bow; after all, a skilled craftsman must first have the right tools.

Further away, Thomas and Fila were conducting a site survey. Building the fence was something that couldn't be taken lightly, as it concerned the long-term development plan of the family camp.

Anyway, Li Wei doesn't understand this area. Although he secretly thought about expanding the wall last autumn, the gap between imagination and reality is so big.

Anyway, he really admired those four tough guys. If it were him, he really couldn't do it, disregarding everything and mining stones in the cold winter.

The newly built stone wall should be of a very high standard and quite large in scale. It is built in stages along the mountainside, about 50 meters from north to south and about 40 meters from east to west, with a total circumference of about 180 meters.

The numbers may seem small, but once you draw the area, you'll see that it's actually quite large.

It's practically a small fortress.

Thomas and Fila both have big ambitions, which shows that once the camp is upgraded to level 4, there will really be huge changes.

Of course, unlike a small fortress, the wall that Thomas is going to build is only set to be three meters high and two meters wide for the time being. The middle is filled with gravel and clay, with more stone on the outer layer and less on the inner layer. A foundation needs to be dug underneath, and there will most likely be no trench.

This is the foundation reserved for future expansion.

Therefore, the current workload should be much smaller.

It can only be considered a prototype of a fortress.

Furthermore, according to Fira's blueprint, the area within the walls will be divided into four zones.

The northwest side is the residential area, and the northeast side is the warehouse area and workshop, where important household supplies, tools, food and the like are stored.

The southwest side has the largest area, encompassing blacksmith shops, material warehouses, small blast furnaces, brick kilns, charcoal kilns, and lime kilns; this can be considered an industrial area.

The southeast side is temporarily vacant.

All of the family's farmland was outside the wall and not included in the boundary.

It seems that Fira's initial plan was to include farmland within the fence and build a 500-meter perimeter wall, but the revised plan is undoubtedly more prudent.

After all, even Li Wei couldn't imagine what it would be like for his family of six to live in a fortress with a circumference of 500 meters.
Patrolling every day must be exhausting.

"It feels a bit unreal, unless we upgrade to a level 4 camp and more players join."

Thinking this way, Li Wei realized that there were still many difficulties to be faced in the development of his family. For example, the salt he had managed to buy back last autumn was probably almost used up, and foreign trade would have to be put back on the agenda.

With more players, not only will conflicts increase, but food consumption will also intensify.

There are so many things to consider, it's enough to give me a headache.

But there's no point in thinking about it now; we should just get down to business and get to work.

Next, Li Wei went to the makeshift warehouse and took out a steel shovel and a specially made hoe suitable for land reclamation. He planned to cultivate the farmland. After ten months of development, his family was now self-sufficient in terms of tools, and the quality and quantity were guaranteed.

He no longer needs to be as embarrassed as he was last year.

The only regret is that the old ox died. Otherwise, they could have used it to plow the fields this spring. Penny had even reserved iron ingots for making plowshares, but damn it... It feels like an invisible hand is secretly sabotaging their progress.

When Li Wei arrived at the farmland, he saw that Fila had already marked out the specific reclamation lines.

According to her development plan, the farmland reclaimed by Li Weixin should ideally exist in the form of terraced fields.

Firstly, this maximizes the flatness of farmland and makes better use of land space on hillsides. Secondly, it ensures that the land is far from rivers, preventing floods from destroying crops. Thirdly, it ensures convenient irrigation.

In short, Fila's plan is almost identical to Li Wei's, so there's nothing more to discuss.

Over the next three months, Li Wei will cultivate at least six acres of farmland in this area using terraced fields. This is the cultivation plan on the west bank of the stream. If he wants to continue cultivating, he will have to go to the east bank of the stream.

But that's too far off. Li Wei's mission cycle is only three years. New players will definitely join in the future, like a relay race.

But these were things he couldn't consider.

Including the previous two acres, there are a total of eight acres of farmland. With the help of professional farmers, one-star quality seeds, and fertile soil, a yield of 500 catties per acre is easily achievable.

Four thousand catties of wheat, including other food supplies, should be enough to feed ten people, right?
As Li Weiyi pondered, he quickly swung his hoe. The ground had thawed somewhat, so clearing it wasn't too difficult. Plus, he had plenty of strength, so he felt like a human motor, without any pressure at all.

He only took a short break in the middle, went back to his room to drink some water, and then Li Wei drank straight until noon.

The temperature has reached seven or eight degrees Celsius. A gentle warm breeze is blowing, bringing moisture from the melting snow. I wonder if there will be flash floods after the snow melts.

Of course, this is not something he needs to consider; he is not the head of the family.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye. With his sharp tools in hand, Li Wei easily completed the reclamation of two acres of farmland, even though he started working at ten o'clock every morning, and initially made it into several small terraced fields.

In this kind of work, his physical strength of 170 points is a great advantage. He can dig like a small motor and can dig continuously for one or two hours without rest. Moreover, as long as there is enough food, he can recover quickly by evening after a day's work and can practice parkour for an hour and archery and wooden spear throwing for an hour.

Play it like a game!

Of course, the trade-off is that you'll get hungry very easily.

Fila provided him with a daily food ration of three meals, but he could only manage to eat about 80% of what he was supposed to eat.

Of course, he could still find food in the warehouse himself; at most, his family contribution points would be deducted.

Such are the rules, and we have no choice but to follow them.

Fortunately, after cultivating these two acres of farmland, he had completed the hard targets of his monthly main task. All that was left was patrolling, and more patrolling.

Because planting will have to wait until next month.

Of course, Li Wei could do some things in advance, such as digging the irrigation ditch upstream of the stream to divert the water to irrigate the two acres of land. He also needed to take time to clear away the withered grass on the surface of the winter wheat according to the temperature changes and irrigate it in a timely manner. Sowing could begin at the beginning of next month or the end of this month.

In addition, wooden stakes had to be driven into the perimeter of the farmland to make fences, and stones had to be moved and piled up to form stone walls to prevent wild animals from harming the farmland.

But after so many days, he hadn't seen a single wild boar. It was probably because this area was sparsely populated and the wildlife environment was not damaged much, so the wild boars weren't starving.

Indeed, grass has sprouted in the sunny areas of the mountains and forests.

We have now entered the stage where the grass appears green from afar but is barely visible up close.

(End of this chapter)