The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Where did Chapter 259 go?
"You haven't been back for a while?"

Ling Chengen and Chong Zhen walked out of the small courtyard side by side. Looking back at the five-room courtyard, Ling Chengen said thoughtfully, "Do you have the building design blueprints with you?"

Chongzhen wiped his hands, nodded and said, "The blueprints you gave me before only defined the scope of the housing buildings. I designed the specifics myself later. I just wanted to show them to you. I didn't build many of these small courtyards because I took into account the current population of the tribe. If we built all of them, there might not be enough people in the city to live in them."

When Ling Chengen arrived, he had already roughly surveyed the layout of the city from the air.

The inner city is square in shape and is planned in a grid pattern.

The north-south central avenue is the city's central axis. Ling Chengen intended to design this main road as a street integrating government affairs and commerce, rather than using it as a major traffic artery, and to make it a symbol of the city.

With the central avenue as the axis, there are two main roads, each 20 meters wide, on either side. These two main roads, like the central avenue, run through the north and south of the city and are planned as major transportation arteries.

The width of the inner city streets is roughly divided into five levels of planning.

The widest street is the north-south central axis, which is 49 meters wide.

Secondly, there are the main traffic arteries on both sides, each twenty meters wide.

The street in the central east-west direction is also twenty meters wide.

The remaining three streets are 16 meters, 5 meters, and 3 meters wide, respectively.

The alley is three meters wide.

Five meters is considered a regular street.

The 16-meter-wide street is designed for a relatively bustling area.

Most of these were designed from the beginning.

The city was designed with four markets in the cardinal directions, which were large markets in the inner city. However, they were not comparable in size to the trading areas outside the city. This design was mainly to meet the daily trading needs of the beastmen in the inner city, so that they would not have to go to the outer city to buy things.

The residential design patterns in the four parts of the city (east, west, south, and north) are also different, which takes into account the different living habits of each tribe of orcs.

For example, the rat-like orcs are afraid of light, so they are used to being nocturnal and prefer to live underground.

Many of the orcs in the Yaoluo tribe also live in caves, while others, like Yu Shaochen, are accustomed to living in treehouses to avoid attacks from natural enemies.

The Stone Forest Tribe consists of a small number of orcs who are almost accustomed to living on cliffs, and some simple-minded people who rely on tree hollows and caves to build dilapidated wooden houses (shacks) that collapse and are rebuilt again and again.

These factors must be taken into account when designing residential buildings.

When Ling Chengen designed this city, his goal was to make it all-encompassing, so it may be expanded later to include a residential area that can accommodate amphibious beastmen.

Furthermore, considering the city's water supply issues, a canal was to be built within the inner city, connecting the two major rivers that flow through the Baomulan Plain. Additionally, some smaller waterways were to be dug to facilitate the daily water use of the city's residents.

Of course, wells can be drilled, but Ling Chengen doesn't have enough points to exchange for this technology yet. She only has a very basic theoretical understanding of how to operate it and needs to spend time experimenting repeatedly. This still needs to be done step by step.

After walking with Ling Chengen for about ten minutes, Chongzhen pushed open a wooden door that was only closed, and stepped aside to let her go in first.

Ling Chengen asked, "Have you been staying here recently?"

After Chongzhen entered the courtyard, he walked to a bucket, scooped out a few ladles of water and poured them into a wooden basin. He then began to wash off the thick layer of dust on his body. As he did so, he said to her, "It's temporary. The construction site moves every day. Recently, I've been keeping an eye on the construction progress of the small courtyards in the south of the city, including the kang beds and underfloor heating. So I just randomly picked a small courtyard that was closer to me to settle down."

Ling Chengen looked around and found that the courtyard was very small, with only about three rooms: a main house, a bedroom, and a small kitchen, covering an area of ​​about thirty square meters...

After looking at it, Ling Chengen frowned and said, "Isn't this courtyard a bit too small? And it's a single-story house, which makes it a bit too impractical. It'll be hard to divide the space, won't it?"

Chongzhen wiped the water off his face and pointed to the row: "This is how it's designed. This area is for accommodating orphaned beastmen. If we put some elderly beastmen together, it would cause a lot of problems."

Because there are fewer females and more males in the beast world, it is common for a female to have several partners. Due to their weaker constitution, some females may suffer health problems after multiple births, and they are easily killed in extreme environments and during large beast tides.

After the female dies, the remaining males usually choose to separate.

Some will choose to find another partner, while others will not.

Because orcs retain some characteristics of their animal form, some of them have a very strong sense of territory. If male orcs who are used to living alone are all arranged to live in one courtyard, it is easy for trouble to break out, resulting in injuries or even death.

These are all problems that Chongzhen encountered when he was the young clan leader. Therefore, when building houses, he not only had to consider the cubs who had lost the protection of their parents, but also had to separate out this group of people who lived alone.

Although this takes up some land area, it is currently considered a relatively good solution.

As for why it was built as a single-story house instead of a multi-story building...

This is of course a technical problem that has not yet been overcome.

Chongzhen pointed to the distance between each courtyard: "The walls here are temporary. There is a narrow alley about 1.5 meters wide in the middle, which will be used to build stairs later."

"Once I figure out how to ensure the stability of high-rise buildings, I will add a building on the basis of the bungalows, and then build an external staircase in the reserved alleyway. This will make the land use more efficient."

Ling Chengen handed him the handkerchief hanging on the clothesline. Chongzhen wiped the water off his face and neck, wiped the water off his hands, turned around and went inside to rummage through drawers and cabinets. He quickly took out a thick stack of blueprints.

"The paper you gave me before wasn't enough, so I made another batch recently. If you run out, you can get some from me."

Chongzhen casually said, then moved a small stool and sat down at the square folding wooden table where they usually ate. He casually pulled out a somewhat worn-out drawing and pushed it in front of Ling Chengen.

Ling Chengen adjusted the position of the drawing and then began to carefully examine its contents.

Chongzhen's handwriting has improved significantly compared to before. Although it is still a bit messy, it is no longer difficult to recognize. Moreover, his design drawings are more detailed and complete than before, so they are easy to understand.

The building plans in the drawings are relatively rough general plans.

Two main north-south and east-west roads divide the entire city into a grid pattern resembling the Chinese character "田" (field), with residential and building areas designed within each grid.

The rat-race orcs mainly reside in the southwest of the city, the stone forest orcs are mainly settled in the northeast, and Yaoluo is located in the northwest. The southwest area is currently vacant, but considering that other wandering orcs will come to see the place after it is built, and if they like it, they may decide to stay...

Therefore, the southwest region served as a place to accept wandering orcs and orcs from other tribes.

If no one dares to come, and food supplies are plentiful, the population will grow rapidly in the coming decades, leaving ample room for development and growth.

……

"Has the technology for building construction not been mastered yet?" Ling Chengen looked at the building area planned on the blueprints, which was still under construction.

Chongzhen rolled his eyes upon hearing this: "Do you think things can be resolved with just a few words?"

"This is difficult. How to lay the foundation to ensure that the high-rise building will not collapse, what materials are most suitable as the building frame, these all require a lot of experimentation."

"Moreover, when high-rise buildings are first built, problems are sometimes not visible, but as time goes on, the building tilts, the walls crack... all sorts of problems will follow one after another, and these all need to be considered one by one."

Chongzhen said this through gritted teeth. He felt like a corporate slave whose energy had been completely drained, and he had encountered a client who only knew how to give orders and wanted this and that.

The key issue is that that brat disappears every few days and doesn't provide him with much technical support; she just keeps daydreaming!

He actually really wanted to criticize her.

All you do is dream about!
It would be better to just kill him!

Looking at his deeply resentful expression, Ling Chengen fell silent for a moment. She was afraid that if she angered him, he might simply quit. Being in charge of the entire city's construction was truly a difficult task; no one dared to take on his job. Even Ling Chengen felt a chill run down her spine looking at the thick stack of blueprints.

So, at this point, she was still quite pragmatic and would try to appease him if she could.

Seeing that she had lowered her stance, Chongzhen's gloom dissipated.

"The experiment on the high-rise building is being conducted outside the city. There is progress so far, but it can only be added up to four stories. Any higher and it won't be possible."

"But I think it's definitely not going to work out if I and a few others just sit here and do nothing."

"Therefore, I think we should still send someone to learn from those orcs who live in tall buildings."

Ling Chengen blinked and humbly inquired, "Are there any other talents like this on our Northern Beast Plains?"

Chongzhen stared intently at her: "..."

"Of course there are. Orcs with very advanced construction techniques are actually mostly small in stature."

"Especially insect-type beastmen, but these kinds of beastmen are quite rare, and they usually avoid us, so we can't go looking for them; we can only run into them by luck."

Ling Chengen recalled the few Zerg warriors summoned from Rattlesnake, small in size?

That can't be right, she felt that the Zerg warriors were all quite large.

After listening to her question, Chongzhen sighed deeply.

"You're talking about the giant insect race!"

"But even a fool could figure it out: if there are giant insects, there must also be small-sized insectoid orcs!"

"It's just like the rat race. Although most rats are small and their humanoid forms look quite different from ours, there are actually giant rats, such as kangaroos and sika rats. These two races are quite large, and their humanoid forms are similar to ours."

"However, both of these rat species are from the Southern Beast Plains."

The rat tribe of the Northern Beast Plains is rather short.

"The 'ant tribe' and the 'bee tribe' are actually both skilled builders."

"Based on our needs, we need to ask the orcs of the ant tribe for help."

Chongzhen pulled out a blueprint from the bottom layer: "This is a blueprint of a red termite nest, which I hand-drew."

Ling Chengen turned his head to look him over, and asked again and again, "Red Earth Termites?"

"From the Southern Beast Plains?"

"How did you know him?"

Chongzhen: "They were exiled here. Their hometown was destroyed, and most of them died. In the end, they were dumped in our Northern Plains, hoping that these red earth termites would wreak havoc on the beastmen of our Northern Plains."

But the orcs of the Southern Plains don't know what's wrong with them. They live like animals in the Northern Plains, and let alone building houses, having a cave or stone cave is considered quite respectable. How could they possibly build wooden houses?!
However, now... some have been built inside the city, but most of them are for decoration, have little insulation effect, and are not intended for living.

In addition, the climate in the Northern Plains was extreme, so after the Red Earth Termite Tribe entered the Northern Plains, a large number of them died in the extreme cold. In the end, they carefully avoided the two major tribes in the south and migrated southwest, hiding in the deep mountains and forests. They were unwilling to provoke the exiled nobles or move north.

The climate in the north is very harsh for them.

Winters are extremely cold, and summers have a rainy season.

Spring and autumn were slightly better, but when they went out hunting for supplies, the waves of vicious beasts outside kept coming one after another, without end.

Even with extremely advanced construction techniques, it's still not enough.

Because they can usually stay at home, but they always have to go out to find food and supplies.

Therefore, they lose many members of their tribe in each of the four seasons.

Their lives were truly miserable.

Ling Chengen watched Chong Zhen speak eloquently and said thoughtfully, "You want the ant tribe to move here?"

This is a bit of a big problem.

She had never encountered termites before, but she knew that termites were actually a very troublesome species for humans.

This organism prefers woody fibers.

Even if the termite race were beastmen, they probably still retained some animalistic habits.

If they move here, we will need to specifically address their living issues while also ensuring the safety of the surrounding environment, which is quite challenging.

Chongzhen pondered, "It's definitely unrealistic to let them move in directly."

“The urban planning is almost complete now, and no space has been reserved for them.”

"Moreover, the termite tribe is not like us Yaoluo, who are willing to directly merge into the Stone Forest. So the places in the city are still left for our own people to live in. We can do business with them, exchanging goods for technology, a one-time transaction."

"Once we learn the technology, it becomes ours."

"But they can only earn this much for supplies this once."

Zhong Zhenren was shrewd and quick-witted: "However, how to negotiate this deal... and what to put up the bargaining chips, is something you'll need to figure out."

"You've already contacted the termite clan?" Ling Chengen asked incredulously. "Weren't you here? You never left?"

Chongzhen curled the corners of her mouth slightly and said with an arrogant expression, "I haven't left, but I can't be all alone, can I? There are so many people in Yaoluo, there must be a few who are loyal to me and willing to go through fire and water for me."

Ling Chengen sincerely admitted his mistake, saying, "...It was my fault. I should have arranged an assistant for you in advance."

Chongzhen stroked his chin and clicked his tongue in amazement, saying, "It's really hard for our young clan leader to still remember someone like me? You're not just feeling sorry for me for a few minutes, are you? You're just going to forget about me again after that, aren't you?"

“I’m not like Su Weihua, that taciturn guy. I don’t want to be ignored, and I don’t want you to mistake me for a hardworking old ox.”

"I need a reward! A huge reward!"

Ling Chengen placed the spatial earring on the small table and said speechlessly, "Yours."

"This must be that merman, you're just using someone else's flowers to present to Buddha."

Ling Chengen was getting a little annoyed. He put one hand on his earring, pretending to pull it back, and grinned, saying, "If you don't want it, fine, I'll give it to someone else."

The next second, Chongzhen immediately changed her previous arrogance, grabbed the back of her hand, pried open her fingers and snatched the earring back, muttering under her breath, "How can you be like this? Going back on your word."

"One can be arrogant, but one should not be pretentious," Ling Chengen snorted.

"Who did it? Where did I do it?"

Chongzhen put on the earrings, couldn't help touching them a few times, tilted his head to face her with the left side of his face, and couldn't help but smile, but still asked with feigned modesty, "Does it look good?"