Chapter 294 In order to survive
When Frederick woke up, he saw himself lying in a wooden house, and the sky outside the window was dim and bright.
The wooden house is very simple. The only decoration is the wood carvings hanging on the wall. Soft hay is piled up and covered with a layer of cloth to form a bed. The pillow is also a roll of cloth wrapped in hay.
He moved his body and could barely control it.
The wind blowing outside the window is carrying moisture, and the storm and rain that have been falling for several days and nights have just stopped.
During these days, Frederick's soul had been working hard to reintegrate with his body. During this period, his body retained its basic functions. He could breathe on his own, swallow and digest food. Soon, his hearing, touch, etc. also recovered, but Only the input signal, the output signal is now restored.
Perhaps because he moved a moment ago, the girls sleeping next to him woke up and exclaimed when they saw him opening his eyes.
The girls were sent by the queen here - now the queen mother - to take care of him. In the past few days, Frederick relied on them to provide water and food, carry feces, urine and wipe the body.
Soon after, the country’s Queen Mother Ellie and Queen Bili, who had just ascended the throne for two days, came to the room, followed by the Queen carrying a bowl of porridge.
The small country was attacked by monsters, and most of the young and middle-aged people were slaughtered. The heavy pressure made Ellie grow old overnight. The fist that used to look like it could kill a bear can now only crush a chicken.
Ellie sat beside the hay bed, with a rare smile on her face. She looked into Frederick's slightly tired eyes and said, "Just wake up. If you don't wake up again, I don't know what to do."
When Frederick was unconscious, he heard this voice several times. He sighed and replied with a smile: "Thank you for taking care of your Highness these days."
"Don't dare." Ai Li hurriedly waved her hands and said, "You saved our lives, this is nothing."
The place where this country is located looks like a huge crater, surrounded by impassable mountains. , the outflowing river is fast and has many reefs. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also difficult to escape. Frederick came here only after he found a mountain road that was suspected of being walked by someone.
Ellie then said: "You are hungry, drink some porridge first."
After saying that, Billie sat next to Frederick with a wooden bowl to feed him.
Frederick quickly refused, and Ellie said: "Just let her feed you. You saved us, you can stay and be the king, so what if I feed you?"
Now Frederick had nothing to say. He couldn't stay and be the king of the mountain. He could only let Bi Li feed herself quietly and finish the bowl of rice porridge cooked with milk.
After breakfast, Frederick saw what it means that just after the disaster has passed, life will continue.
After eating something, he was able to get out of bed and move around, so he went outside for a walk with Mint, the girl who had been taking care of him these days.
Mint is one or two years older than Frederick. He was once a hunter. He was injured during a hunting last year. He lost three fingers on his left hand, leaving only his thumb and index finger. Now he can only do some relatively light work.
This place is surrounded by mountains and has abundant water resources. Most of the farmland has been reclaimed into paddy fields for growing rice. Except for the current rainy season, it can be grown three seasons a year. There are also some fields where beans and other vegetables are grown, and pumpkins are grown on the slopes at the foot of the mountains.
In addition, a kind of potato is grown here. This white potato is the staple food of most people. The harvested rice is mainly used to make wine and exchange materials with the outside world.
The rice was harvested here not long ago. Today is a rare sunny day. Not long after the sun came out, the grain drying field was dried. Now the surviving young and middle-aged people, old and weak women and children in the whole country went to the battle to dry the rice in the warehouse. The rice is taken out to dry.
Frederick and Mint sat on the top of the wooden city wall, looking at the busy drying field not far away, where the Queen and the Queen Mother were also busy.
Mint said to Frederick in a slightly hoarse voice: "The Queen and the Queen Mother have decided that we are going to seal the country."
Frederick was taken aback for a moment, and soon understood what she meant.
Nowadays, this country has almost no defense power. If other places find out, it will only end up being robbed. If you want to survive, you can only close it down and wait for the next generation to grow up.
Frederick asked: "What about supplies such as salt and iron?"
Mint replied: "There is a little stone salt in the mountains that is enough for us, and there is also some nearby. Iron Ore.”
Frederick nodded, somewhat understanding their confidence in sealing the country.
In today's agricultural society, being self-sufficient and closed for twenty years does not seem to be a big problem.
It’s just that the productivity level here is too low. Frederick and Mint walked for a day and found that the plows still used straight shaft plows. There were obviously many small rivers and streams but no waterwheels. Other tools were also very primitive. So much so that Frederick worried about whether they could survive.
When night fell and everyone was preparing to eat the second meal of the day, Ellie said helplessly to Frederick: "We have only been here thirty years, and we have learned how to farm and blacksmith with great difficulty. There is good craftsmanship, but there are no good carpenters, and the good carpenters from outside are not willing to come."
Frederick understood a little, and said, "I want to live here for a while and teach you how to do something. Tools.”
He felt like he had gained some new abilities after being struck by lightning a while ago, and he planned to get familiar with it here before leaving. Ellie immediately laughed when she heard it: "Oh, thank you so much. You are really a messenger sent by the mushroom god!"
Frederick just smiled on the surface, thinking to himself This mushroom god appeared out of nowhere, it couldn't be some evil religious organization.
He looked at the big rat cooked with mushrooms in the bowl that Mint had just brought to him, and thought that this could not be the Holy Communion.
Ellie said again: "I have a heartfelt request, and I hope you can agree."
Frederick asked: "What is it?"
"Alas..." Ellie sighed deeply, "What we lack now is population. If there are not enough people, we can't survive at all. The people outside were taken as slaves and eaten by the new monsters."
"I want you to leave some descendants here. If you are so strong, the descendants must be very strong so that we can survive."
The corner of Frederick's mouth twitched. He had run away just because he didn't want to leave an illegitimate child.
Ellie noticed that he seemed unwilling, and said: "Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to, we won't do anything to the savior."
Frederick said through her words: "Sorry, I can't do this."
Ellie smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I was abrupt, just pretend I didn't say it."
“Well, in order to let everyone survive, my hair has turned white in two days. It’s difficult.”
Frederick didn’t have much to do about this, he could only teach They have found some ways to increase crop yields.
"Mint!" Ellie suddenly turned her head and shouted toward the door, "Is the soup ready? Serve it quickly when it's ready. Don't let your benefactor go hungry!"
She then said to Frederick: "They caught a bird in the drying field this afternoon. It was quite fat."
Frederick just smiled and said nothing more.
This "palace" is only a three-story wooden building, which is not as good as the small villa in Weisen State Manor, so we can't be too demanding.
Mint soon came over with a basin of soup. It was inconvenient for her to hold the bottom of the bowl with her left hand, so Ellie helped her put it on the table.
In addition to a cooked bird, there were only a few vegetable leaves in the pottery pot. Ellie didn't eat it, but only shared it with Frederick and Billie, who was sitting aside and looked afraid of strangers.
"You young people, eat more." Ellie said while sharing the soup, "I am old, I just don't have to starve to death."
Frederick tried it and felt that the soup was quite fragrant and very delicious. Suit your own taste.
There is no nightlife here. After dinner, Mint opened a bucket of water and wiped his body, and then it was time to go to bed.
As soon as Frederick lay down, a girl who had heard the noise in the past few days came in carrying a smoking pottery pot, saying that it was smoke to repel mosquitoes at night.
There are a lot of mosquitoes here at night, and the spider webs outside the window are full of prey.
Frederick felt very tired, thinking it was the sequelae of the battle, and fell asleep as soon as he got into bed.
In another room, there were several young girls standing in front of Ellie. She said seriously: "Look at the days, you guys happen to be pregnant these days. Can we survive? Our The future depends on you."
After that, Ellie gave each of these girls a cup of potion and asked them to go to Frederick's room after they drank it.
Then Ellie picked up a long list and put a mark behind the names of these girls.
The night has passed, and the book will not go into details.
The next morning, it was already bright when Frederick woke up. He felt that he had slept very soundly last night and could not sleep until dawn.
He was lying on the bed thinking, let's get the Qu Yuanli out first today.
Until Frederick left this country, no one knew what happened every night in those days. Hundreds of years later, no one discovered a clue until the world started genetic sequencing.
(End of this chapter)