Chapter 159 13. Phantom in the Forest
[Dear sisters:
Sorry, I don’t want to hide it from you, but I don’t want to make you worry even more... Please forgive my selfishness.
The second sister said that you like violets in a long poem. I can’t think of a suitable poem. Xingyue Bay only has sea water and cold... But I found violets.
Don’t worry about me, everything is fine with me here】
Leila, who was holding the vase, arranged the violet flowers brought back by the fire crow and placed them in front of Itilia who put down the letter.
“Look at the flowers that little Annan sent back. Sister, just forgive him. "
"This violet flower can feed a hundred people."
"You're here again." Leila moved Idilia's shoulders helplessly. Let her look at the violets in the vase, "This is a gift prepared by my little brother to make you happy. He can't bring back a cart of food."
It took Leila a long time to let Itilia No longer angry with Annan, he wiped the slight sweat from his forehead.
She has sacrificed so much for this family.
"Hurry up and write back to Xiao Annan and say you forgive him."
"No...he has his own territory, how can he still care about the Osu Lund Territory? We let him live on his own. Let’s go out and wander around.”
“Is our eldest sister angry because of this? It’s so cute, let’s let the younger brother come back.”
Idilia resisted and pushed away. Leila rubbed her cheek with her hand, and a red mark appeared on her delicate pale cheek: "Annan's territory has just started, and he still has many things to be busy with."
Layla crossed her arms and sneered: "What else can he do besides causing trouble? Maybe he found a bunch of elves to sleep with..."
Laila seemed to see Annan in the future hugging a bunch of black elves with pointed ears. The boy with the hair came back, successfully irritated himself, grabbed the quill and said angrily:
"I want this bastard to come back quickly!"
......
Annan was in the mage's robe. He was wearing a wolf skin to protect him from the severe cold in the morning.
Not far away, the residents were busily walking in front of the portal, moving piles of charcoal into the warehouse.
This charcoal is enough for Xingyue Bay to survive this cold winter, but the goods are still coming slowly on the road.
Because Breeze City will no longer send refugees, Annan asked Ingrid to register all the residents, and record their age, gender, and what they are good at.
Excluding Ingrid, the Knights and the craftsmen, there are a total of 1,033 people in Annan. Old Zoron is the oldest, Ciro is the youngest, and most of the rest are between 15 and 30 years old. Mainly farmers and woodcutter.
No one ran away. When they were refugees, they suffered from hunger, dug through trash cans, fought with rats for food, and even lay down in taverns to pick up vomit residue... Now they have a warm place to live and plenty of food, and now they just want to praise the young and great The lord is generous and kind.
And the quality of the citizens cannot be said to be uneven, but those who can write their own names probably haven't screened "The Fall of the Mage Tower" as many times.
So there have been three or four incidents of molestation and fighting in Xingyue Bay these days. The prisoners were temporarily placed in temporary cells before Annan had time to see them.
The guard captain selected fifty people from the new territory to join the guard reserve. The portal was annihilated. Annan came to the cell accompanied by Ingrid and ignored their pleas and said:
" Those who participated in the fight will receive one hundred trees each, and those who molested women will receive two hundred trees each. If they forgive you, you can stay in the territory. If you do not forgive, you will be expelled from Xingyue Bay. "
"Or. You try to escape, I won't stop you."
Several prisoners were overjoyed, but two local residents were frightened and begged. Winter is approaching, and several days of frost have caused the forest to shed its leaves. It will be difficult for them to survive being driven out of Xingyue Bay.
But Annan was not as kind as before: "Everyone must atone for the mistakes they have committed."
Ingrid was right to praise Annan for establishing his majesty. Annan wanders around the territory all day long, responding to the greetings of his subjects, but familiarity will make the subjects lose their awe.
"This is not to establish majesty, it is the law of Xingyue Bay in the future." Annan told Ingrid the prototype of the laws he had imagined these days, such as about theft, robbery, molestation, and murder. "But it's too serious..."
Ingrid agreed but did not support it, believing that such a law would be criticized. If placed in Breeze City, half of the nobles would be sentenced to death and the other half would be expelled from the city.
Even Olmedo cannot bear this price.
"It's always been like this, right?"
Ingrid was stunned by Annan's words.
The census statistics also exposed an ongoing problem: the imbalance between men and women.
There are less than 100 women among the 1,000 residents, and more than 20 of them are still willing to follow Annan's female workers and their families.
Children, the elderly, women...their proportion among the refugees is negligible.
Annan was silent for a long time when he knew about this. He narrowly applied his own experience to those refugees, ignoring that no matter in the peaceful Pinglin Town or the prosperous Breeze City, poor people died every moment.
Countless people will freeze to death this winter.
On the way back to the big house, Annan saw a group of craftsmen arguing.
"You can't do this! It's ugly and unsightly!"
"The lord agreed!"
"It's also ugly! All the houses and orientations are the same, are you making coffins! ”
A short and fat old craftsman rejected their plan. After Annan came over and asked for a piece of paper and pen, he drew a simple drawing - all the houses have the same appearance and are neatly arranged along the street. .
“Isn’t this beautiful?” The other craftsmen didn’t find the problem.
"Good-looking? Do you think this cold and lifeless thing looks good? It lacks natural beauty, and living in a place like this makes people desperate!"
"Then what will you do?" Annan asked him.
The short, fat old craftsman painted another picture, which is still a house with a sloping roof. By making subtle changes to the eaves, doors and windows of each house, the building becomes natural and lively.
Annan is satisfied with this change: "You are their leader now."
The evening activity in Xingyue Bay is still "The Fall of the Mage Tower", but today there is an unexpected person of guests.
The magical image seemed to attract a certain being, wandering outside the camp. The first howler it discovered scared it away as soon as it approached, and returned to the outside of the camp not long after.
The captain of the guard summoned the knights, but they ran away and disappeared without a trace.
Annan came to the woodland where it last disappeared. After a little hesitation, he placed a recording magic stone on the ground to activate it and released it to the late autumn forest.
They returned to the camp, and Annan went to check it out early the next morning. He recorded that the magic stone was gone, and there was a crystal in its original place.
Treant? Elf? Or a druid?
Annan did not destroy this precious kindness and placed it on the desk in the big house.
As morning approached, the fire crow entered the big house with a cold wind. The note tied to the leg has only one sentence:
[Little Annan, you have to go home within one month. If you don't come back, my eldest sister and I will go find you! 】
(End of this chapter)