MC's career as foreign lord

“Well…” Zhou Ren hesitated, “I can only say I can try!”

“How about this, next time you bring me some saplings or seeds, and I’ll try planting them!” he said. “The rules are set, if I can plant them, they’ll live, otherwise they won’t.”

Although even for the elves, advancing to Legend is a major event, Zhou Ren had no shortage of things to do. After tasting the rice, the pouting Lyria was dragged back to study by the two bad adults.

Zhou Ren also temporarily understood that his territory's products were different from others. No wonder Anna looked at him differently when she left. We're familiar, but wanting a free ride is definitely not going to happen!

The elves are rich, and the dragons are even richer. Coming over to absorb magic or something, paying a fee shouldn't be a problem, right?

Zhou Ren was already calculating things for a while later, feeling that according to Princess Shia, his place would be very lively after a while.

But it didn't matter. He sent a message to the clerk, "Help me collect some iron ore or metal ingots, I will pay to buy them!"

Mayor Locke said to look for him if there was anything, it would be a waste not to take advantage of that.

But when will the wealthy elves arrive? He only has a few hundred gold coins left, it won't last long!

“Crap, I didn’t ask Shia about the price of the elf fruit!” Zhou Ren was still thinking about squeezing a fortune out of those nouveau riche, but if they came late, there wouldn’t be any profit to talk about!

But the three of them had already walked far away, "They're all elves, they probably won't say anything. It's better to pull Anna in, dragons are greedy, there's definitely something to gain!"

Zhou Ren thought to himself, his eyes quickly locking onto something. The rice tasted really good, but he heard it contained a lot of magic?

Lyria was too full to eat anymore, so the rest was still left for Dag to devour.

According to their explanation, Zhou Ren summarized it slightly, and the general idea was this: Among all his food, meat had almost no magic, because it was bought from the outside.

And those plants, fruits, or vegetables, as well as fish, were confirmed to have magic in them, and the concentration was very high, almost equivalent to the World Tree fruit of the elves.

As for the elf fruit, it was a magical plant in the first place, and it sprouted, took root, and matured in such an environment, not only having extremely high magical elements and special effects, but also a very rich vitality in it.

In Anna's words, "Even if I'm a dragon, I can feel this power filling my whole body, sigh, I really want to tie you back!"

When she said this, she lay weakly on the table, her eyes emitting a very peculiar light, making Zhou Ren feel like he was a piece of meat stained with grease - or rather, a large piece of shining gold.

So Zhou Ren sent her away, threw the bowl into the sink and fished it out again, and then prepared to leave.

Speaking of which, the kitchen finally looks a bit like a kitchen now, with some cooking utensils and tools, and a little food stored up. Zhou Ren thought maybe he could light a bonfire in the kitchen, and add two smoking stoves.

But thinking about it, he decided against it. It's not suitable to do this indoors. Next time, he can open up the kitchen and build a special outdoor kitchen to do these things, so he won't be smoked!

Zhou Ren still occasionally takes out the "Synthesis Guide" to study the things between the new version and the new module, such as copper, which used to be huge in quantity but useless in version 1.17, can now be used to make tools, weapons, and armor.

Moreover, a kind of armor between the armor itself has appeared, that is, chain armor, which has low defensive attributes and extremely high cost performance.

The synthesis method of chain armor and ordinary metal armor is similar, except that the metal ingot is replaced with a metal chain.

And a chain is synthesized from four metal grains, and one metal ingot can be split into nine metal grains, so the consumption of the chain suit is four-ninths of the metal suit. The metal ingots that can make four sets of equipment can be made into nine sets after being split into chain armor!

Zhou Ren was very curious, and specially took out a little iron ingot, split it into iron grains, and then arranged it into a rhombus on the workbench to test it carefully.

In fact, the chain armor looks surprisingly good. It is obviously just a short chain, but after it is synthesized, it becomes a very bright special chain mail.

The thin chain seems to only transmit light, but the defense is only a little weaker than iron armor, a bit like the armored soldiers in Western movies, but the lightweight attribute seems to be completely explosive!

As for the others… it's so cheap, what else do you want? After all, in the original world, chain suits can only be generated naturally. Although the defense is not high, the style is high!

The original chain armor comes from the gift of nature, and of course it can also be said to be a gift from the Creator God, after all, the materials that can only be synthesized through flames, I am afraid that only Einstein can do it.

However, Lu Xun once said: "I didn't say this!"

Whatever, it's good if it can be used, Zhou Ren doesn't care about this, what he is thinking about now is to build the ranch as soon as possible.

The meal just now has highlighted the difference between the meat from outside and the meat he raised. The meat from outside is just not unpalatable, and the meat from the farm is probably gradually becoming delicious under the combination of the environment and feed here.

In Anna's words, "It's full of the breath of elements and the taste of magic!"

He hurried to the place where he had temporarily tied up the livestock before. It seemed that the MC system had transformed these animals very well, and even if they hadn't eaten or drank for a few days, nothing unexpected had happened.

This group of cattle and sheep seemed to have gotten used to this kind of life, leisurely eating grass and shaking their feet.

Zhou Ren was going to place them on another wasteland, which was farther from the river bank and diagonally across from his house, so that it would be completely staggered from the entrance and would not affect water collection or anything.

It's a pity that the wheat in the field won't mature until tomorrow, so he can only use his wheat reserves to raise cattle and sheep. Zhou Ren felt a bit of a headache when he thought about it.

This wasteland is surprisingly flat. Zhou Ren found a large, particularly flat area, just enough to enclose a large piece of land.

This place is almost all mud, with some small amounts of stones and gravel piled on it, and some mounds, but these are not big deals.

Zhou Ren remembered that in a certain version of the change, sheep must eat grass to grow hair, which made him develop the habit of raising animals on the grassland, one piece for cattle and sheep, one piece for pigs, and one piece for rabbits.

As for chickens… creatures that lay eggs should obediently go into the chicken farming device!

Zhou Ren hates going in to pick up eggs. Eggs should obediently come into the bowl. Later, if there are chickens, they should be directly stuffed into the egg-laying cage.

Soon, he had completely leveled the small piece of land and then went to the woods to cut down trees.

First were the trees on both sides of the road at the entrance. At first, it was fine; they looked quite pleasing to the eye when they weren't too big, but after they grew, the lush plants obscured his view.

Now that he had a huge tree farm, this place could be replaced with slightly more beautiful shrubs or plants, which would not only not obstruct the view but also provide a bit of aesthetic pleasure.

As for now, he didn't have much wood at home, so he might as well cut down these twenty-odd trees first! Zhou Ren had already brandished his axe!

"I really want a one-key tree cutting/chain mining mod!" Zhou Ren still couldn't help but complain, but he knew that in this situation, a Tinker's Construct mod might be more realistic.

Soon, all the trees by the roadside were cut down by him, and the outside buildings were completely exposed. The arrival of those mercenaries only highlighted the increasing solitude of his place.

Zhou Ren looked around with some curiosity. Why did he feel that this place was becoming more and more lively?

This place should have been a remote area in the first place, but with his intentional and unintentional management during this period, that wall had become the real center of this wilderness.

Some town soldiers were stationed by the wall, guarding against external invasions. They guarded the gate made by Zhou Ren, allowing mercenaries to pass through.

Ordinary people would not come here, and even true nobles rarely had territories here. Most of their territories and manors were actually inside the defense line.

The real great nobles all had their own guarded areas, and the smaller nobles who didn't have them also tried to shrink their land inward, just afraid of what would happen after this place was breached.

Although Pineleaf Town had been considered impregnable for the past few decades, from the overall war situation, the magical creatures still took advantage of the high winds every year to constantly infiltrate the hinterland.

This had almost become a chronic problem for the entire Elven Silvermoon Empire. Although not fatal, it was equivalent to constantly bleeding their rule!

Zhou Ren didn't think so much about it. At least it was a good thing. He didn't have to worry about waking up one day and suddenly finding his doorstep occupied by a group of magical creatures, did he?

In a sense, it also meant that the wilderness attribute of his own place had been reduced by more than half. The arrival of some markets at his doorstep could reduce his frequency of going out.

He no longer dwelled on this issue. In fact, only the situation that night was relatively critical. Most of the time, this place was the hunting ground for mercenaries, who were looking for their fortune here.

Most of these people were humans, but there were also many tall elves or some stout dwarves. They formed mercenary groups, usually with human priests or dwarf priests, paired with elven archers, which was quite good.

Don't mention mages. Mages were scarce professions everywhere. Even hiring a professional warrior was much easier than hiring a mage apprentice, so there were no mages in this group.

Zhou Ren shook his head with a smile. Mages were always the bosses! No wonder almost no one dared to provoke him when he first came here. The status of mages was evident.

He continued to lay out the site. He could just pass by the building and turn all the wood into wooden fences, and he could also take a little wheat along the way.

Only twenty units of wheat were enough. Zhou Ren took these things back to the vicinity of the pasture. First, of course, he had to separate the cattle and sheep.

Because both cattle and sheep were creatures attracted to wheat, it would be very troublesome to allocate them later if they were not separated.

In the game, since there was no special method for distribution, Zhou Ren used Steve's body to squeeze and drive the animals, squeezing them into the fence gate.

Now it was much simpler. He directly picked up a sheep and threw it into another fence, with one person standing on both sides of the fence gate, blocking the path of the two kinds of animals that wanted to cross the gate.

Soon, all ten sheep were separated by him, and then it was time to lure the sheep out of the enclosure. This scene was very simple!

Under the eager anticipation of the cows and sheep, Zhou Ren took out the wheat, and then in the next second, he changed it to a new wooden fence, disappearing here.

"Ah! I haven't made a new pasture yet!" Zhou Ren said. In order for the cattle and sheep to have a better life and space in the future, he had to try to enclose a larger area.

Cattle and sheep were ordinary creatures, so there was no need to worry about them jumping out or causing danger, so ordinary fences were enough.

Zhou Ren quickly made all two large pastures, and also thoughtfully made two small houses, which could be used to escape the rain or take a short rest, and could be used by future pasture personnel.

Then, under the expectant gaze of the cattle and sheep, he returned the same way, opened the gate of the sheepfold, and let ten sheep surround him and travel all the way, and soon walked into the pasture one by one.

Zhou Ren rewarded them by feeding each of these sheep once, and a strange green light flashed on their bodies, making the boy watching beside him feel a little uncomfortable.

After all, the grass on the wilderness was yellow, and such a green light was particularly conspicuous. He was also very curious about how the special attributes related to reproduction should be expressed in this world.

In MC, the original reproduction was actually quite interesting. After feeding the animals something, they would enter heat, and then paired with similar creatures in heat, they would directly reproduce.

The process of reproduction was naturally skipped, and in the next instant, a small animal would pop out and become the new leek in the pasture.

And the current pasture was naturally different. Zhou Ren stared at these sheep intently, their eyes also turned red, and they were also erupting with some special power, and then they gathered together, as if in a special intersection.

At the moment when two sheep came together, a lamb was born like this, and then opened its eyes wide to ask him for food.

"Why do I feel like some memory has been deleted?" Zhou Ren scratched his head, noticing a hint of malice, "Forget it, it's good to be able to give birth to lambs."

He expressed his appreciation, and he didn't know how many days it would take for the sheep to grow up. His wheat pasture had been turned several times, and it should be enough to feed these high-yielders.

"Ah! The good news is that I finally have milk!" Zhou Ren thought of this when he was transporting the cows. He was only short of eggs to make a cake. Oh no, eggs are not urgent, his pumpkins are ready!