industrial lord

Chapter 525 Winter is about to pass
This winter, the Kingdom of Tarago is in the midst of a civil war, the Principality of Yelgarod lost an important port city to the Kingdom of Piast, the new generation of female warlords of the Ghazi Empire led a vengeful army to besiege the City of Wanjing, the Osmaga Empire organized the world's largest team to build a railway from Ferdinand City to the Bay of the Sea, and the construction team of the Principality of Wessen, with the help of Hayreddin, built a telegraph tower on the southern coast of the Inland Sea.

And Frederick felt like he was in prison.

When the new year arrived, in the far north, the sun had not appeared in the sky for many days.

The dark night sky is like a canvas, and the aurora is the paint that nature casually applies, creating a gorgeous painting.

The pointer on the thermometer has exceeded the range of minus thirty degrees and is estimated to be around minus forty degrees.

Even the snow wolf, the overlord of the snow forest, dug a deep snow cave in the snow, and the whole family squeezed in for a short hibernation.

Frederick found a lone wolf, dragged it out by its tail, knocked it unconscious, and dragged it all the way back to the camp.

He had not been outdoors for long, but a layer of ice had already formed around his eyes, the only part of his body that was exposed, and his eyebrows had turned white.

"It's good to eat wolf meat in winter. It warms your body."

In the kitchen, He Li cut the wolf into pieces and prepared to stew it.

Frederick just sat on a chair nearby, with the stove in front of him, holding a cup of water in his hand and drinking the hot pine needle water slowly.

When Heli stewed the wolf, Frederick was still sitting there, holding the empty cup, his eyes a little dull.

He Li sat on his lap, put her arm around his shoulders and asked, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

Frederick nodded slightly.

Being locked up in a small dark room is a very effective punishment. A person cannot bear being locked up for a few days.

The winter here is like a big dark house, or even a big prison, and the harsh natural environment is the prison wall.

People's activities are restricted within the house, just like being locked in a cell.

Even if there are strong people who can move around nearby, it is just a short break.

Even with the company of many beautiful women, Frederick still couldn't stand such an environment and began to have mental problems.

In the future, when we open mines here, I’m afraid we’ll have to return to the south as a group when winter comes, otherwise some people will really go crazy.

He Li asked him: "How about we stay here..."

Frederick shook his head and said, "It's easy to catch a cold here. I'll go back and sleep for a while. Call me when it's time to eat."

Now they kept track of time using a pocket watch that belonged to Frederick.

He brought two with him, but the spring of one of them became so frozen that it became brittle when he took it out, and the last one was left in the relatively warm kitchen.

The longhouse was bustling with people, and everyone was trying their best to find things to do to pass the time.

Frederick had carved a few sets of mahjong out of wood, and now was the time to get into it.

But playing mahjong every day will make you tired. I don’t know how long I can keep up this momentum. I’ll just take it one day at a time.

Frederick took off his leather jacket and down jacket and hung them outside the box bed, then tiptoed into the box bed.

Catherine, who was captured here, is now sleeping in this box bed. She is not in a good mental state and cannot go out for a walk like Frederick. She can only rely on taking some kind of mushrooms to increase sleep time to get through the long winter like everyone else.

She was half asleep, and when she smelled Frederick's scent, she immediately hugged him tightly, as if a drowning person grabbed a lifebuoy.

At the end of early January, a ray of light finally appeared on the southeast skyline, and the temperature suddenly rose to more than 20 degrees below zero.

The Aurora Warriors welcome the new sunshine with a thorough cleaning.

Everyone took out all the bedding from the box beds and hung them on the racks to freeze for a while, and then continued to beat them after the other places were cleaned.

Few people here still use quilts, and basically the insects in the animal skins and furs are beaten out after they are frozen to death. The long house, kitchen, sauna and other places are also cleaned up, and the accumulated wood ash is spread on the ground and under the box beds. It is said that when insects crawl through, they will block the pores in their abdomens.

Frederick was busy with everyone. Although doing so would lower the temperature of the house a lot, it was much better than getting sick from insect bites. After all, lighting the fireplace in the house would make it warm again, and if you caught a cold, you could just stay in the sauna for a while.

After working for most of the day, everyone finally finished. A large pot of stew was cooked in the kitchen, with a lot of whale meat and oil, which was mixed with noodles.

After eating and drinking, the second project came next.

The girls broke the ice on the nearby lake, took off all their clothes and threw them on the ice one by one, then jumped into the water and swam a few laps in the winter.

Catherine was a little confused: "Why are they swimming in such a cold day?"

Frederick thought for a moment and said, "Maybe at first it was to freeze the fleas off the clothes and the body, but over time it became a tradition."

Catherine shuddered. She had a psychological trauma about fleas.

"What are you going to do?" She found Frederick taking off his clothes.

Frederick said with a wicked smile: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Catherine has a good physical condition. She has only been eating, sleeping and clearing the Frederick instance during this period. She is a little fatter than before, so there is no problem for her to swim in winter.

"Don't tease her." Jin Li came over and pulled Catherine away. "You need to prepare before going into the water."

The preparation she mentioned was to drink a herbal wine that would make your whole body hot.

This requires the consumption of body energy. During this period, everyone has been eating, sleeping, and brushing Frederick. They have gained a lot of weight, which is enough to consume.

Frederick also jumped into the lake. At first he felt the water was a little warm, so he dived under the water and swam for a while. After getting ashore, he carried his clothes to the sauna.

In the bathroom next to the sauna, there is a large bucket of ash from burning pine needles. Everyone first wets their body and hair, smears them with ash, and finally rinses with water.

Frederick said to Jin Li, "Come, I'll help you."

Unexpectedly, Jin Li pushed him away, lowered her head and said, "Sir, please be patient for the next month."

Frederick was stunned, then nodded and said, "Okay."

Since the other party is unwilling, he won't force it.

The following days were different from the previous ones. People stopped staying in their cabins during the winter and started to move out of the cabins.

Wearing only leather pants and linen vests in the snow, they began to practice martial arts.

It was then that Frederick first felt the strength of these girls as the military force of the Natural Church.

He Li, who was usually busy in the kitchen, held two daggers in her hands, selected a pine tree, stepped on the trunk with her snow-white feet, exerted force, and ran up around the trunk.

In a few breaths, she had reached the top of the tree, then jumped onto another pine tree next to it and ran down around the trunk.

Frederick was hiding under the tree because the girl climbed up the tree and chopped off branches along the trunk with two knives. In a few breaths, the two pine trees became bare trunks.

A group of two-meter-tall ice men emerged from the snow, and the one who cast the spell was the short Bree.

The ice men first dragged the branches back as firewood, then punched and kicked the bare trunk. After a burst of wood chips, the pine tree fell down.

Another girl came over and slapped the tree trunk with one hand. Countless ice blades pierced out of the wood, and the pine tree over 20 meters high suddenly turned into arm-sized firewood.

These were just their warm-up activities. After a few days, the real sparring began.

(End of this chapter)