Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 669
On the top of the sky, the sun is like a huge furnace, emitting endless heat.

Since early spring today, not a single drop of water has fallen on the sky. The large-scale drought has made the surrounding area as far as the eye can see, all of which are withered and yellow.

On the huge and noisy construction site, Bill stretched his waist to relieve his tired muscles and bones.

around,

The companions who were also refugees before were working in full swing. They dug up the dry and hard ground with iron hoes and shovels in their hands, and formed a ditch that extended to the distance.

As long as such a channel is dug to draw water from the distant river, the drought in the farmland in the village can be relieved, and there is still a period of time before the cold winter, just to replant a crop of crops.

Although he was sweating profusely and exhausted after working all morning in this hot weather, Bill's heart became more and more fiery.

Because it's almost time for lunch.

In the cafeteria, the smell of the food was wafting over with the breeze, luring the gluttons in his stomach to wriggle.

"The kingdom is really rich, thanks to the great Highness Austin!"

The honest Bill muttered a sentence in his heart, secretly thanking His Highness for his kindness.

About ten days ago, Bill's family went south with the army of fleeing refugees, struggling to survive along the way, and finally entered the sphere of influence of the Blue Dragon Kingdom when the food was about to run out.

In the beginning,
When passing through the countryside, Bill and his group were still uneasy when they saw those tall, burly orcs with hair all over their bodies, and some children even cried.

Fortunately, those orc adults did not embarrass them.

After distributing a little unknown crispy dry food to no one, they organized everyone and sent another human official to ask their opinions, whether to continue to go south or directly ask for a living here, and registered in the register.

Those who continue to go south are probably the type of people who have relatives somewhere in the Blue Dragon Kingdom and want to seek refuge.

The adults of the Blue Dragon Kingdom didn't feel embarrassed, and directly supported some dry food, and let them continue to go south.

As for Bill and his kind who have no connections and are simply fleeing, they choose to stay here and accept the incorporation of the orc adults.

After a series of disinfection,

After a few days of simple adaptive training and superficial brainwashing education, the group of them was incorporated into the engineering team to repair the water conservancy in the fields of nearby villages.

And their food is provided directly by the orc adults.

Anyway,

After tossing around for a few days, the Bill family finally settled here temporarily.

During the day, he and his wife work separately with the collective, and Bill Jr. also gathers with other children to take care of him. At night, the family lives together in a simple house allocated.

Although the collective work during the day is tiring, it is even more tiring than Bill's work in the past.

But Bill is absolutely unwilling to go back to his previous life.

Absolutely, very unwillingly.

because,

Here, meals are three meals a day,
One meal in the morning, one meal at noon, and one meal in the evening.

and,

Every meal is real food, without any sawdust, tree roots or the like, and there is no limit, you can eat as much as you can!
God knows how much Bill devoured his first meal here after learning of this.

It's like trying to get back what was missing in the past.

Almost broke my stomach!
If it weren't for the short few days when the training was first organized to allow their bodies to recover, such overeating might have killed a few people.

It's no wonder Bill and the others.

The waves of disaster victims gathered here are basically poor serfs who escaped penniless, and they only have two meals a day, which can only eat half full.

Even if you want to eat more, you can’t, because the food at home will not be able to support the next season’s grain harvest if you don’t plan carefully.

and,

The staple food of these bottom-level people is basically a small amount of unhulled wheat and millet mixed with a lot of wild vegetables, and edible bark mixed together, boiled into a green paste.

You will know the taste when you think about it.

Even the legendary black bread mixed with sawdust and as hard as a stick is a "delicacy" that can only be eaten occasionally during the holidays.

For these serfs and commoners who have had enough hunger since they were young, there is no limit to the shelled and peeled white flowers provided by the orcs. They can still see the smell of meat after three or five days, which is simply happiness. It's like being in heaven.

Such a day, no matter how tired it is, so what?

For these low-level serfs struggling to survive on the food and clothing line, the greatest happiness is to be able to eat and fill their stomachs. Everything is so simple.

But then again,

Now these projects are almost finished.

Can they still have enough to eat after their work is done?
If you don't eat lunch, just like those guys,
Sneaky stash of food to dry for a rainy day?

Bill suddenly became worried.

In fact, there are also people who do it like this, hiding some of the excess food, and after drying it becomes dry food and puts it away to prevent any accidents in the future.

Typical smallholder consciousness, but also understandable.

It is difficult for people who have not experienced the famine to understand this kind of behavior, but Bill, who is also a low-level farmer, knows it all too well. Everyone has just survived that precarious life, and naturally worries about encountering this situation again after they have food and clothing.

"Probably not, the great His Highness Austin is so benevolent, he shouldn't leave us alone."

Bill thought so,

After just resting for a few breaths, they continued to deal with the dry and hard land in front of them, and worked together to dig out the ditch.

After using the iron farm tools, Bill only felt that the work that was extremely difficult in the past was extremely easy.

Since His Royal Highness Austin is able to allow us all to use such precious iron farm tools, at least it is valued by us, and we will definitely be able to make a living under His Royal Highness in the future.

Thinking of this, Bill's heavy heart became much easier.

For low-level farmers like them, iron is indeed a very precious thing. It is so precious that the only ironware in many farmers' homes is a thick kitchen knife.

Everyone knows that iron farm tools are easy to use, but most of the people at the bottom cannot afford to use them at all, and can only use wood.

A kitchen knife can even be said to be the most precious thing in many farmers' families.

Among the iron products dumped by the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the southern countries in recent years, the biggest sales are not the bright and sharp kitchen knives forged with new alloys, but the thick ones that have no technical content and are similar to bone chopping knives. kitchen knife.

Even if the price is the same.

But the sales volume of the latter is far greater than that of the former.

Because in the eyes of many low-level farmers, the latter has twice as much iron.

For the same price, this is simply a big profit.

(End of this chapter)