Chapter Eleven: The Village Head's Bitter Fate

  More and more new villagers came in groups of three or five from the village, and a few women also brought firewood back with them. After all, it was still necessary to build several thatched cottages for the villagers first. Food, clothing, shelter, and transportation were all essential. Later, people said that some people in the village had begun to open up wasteland near the village in an organized way. Seeing the new villagers' enthusiasm, Xiao Ying also felt full of confidence.

  After more than half a day, the wood was almost enough to build several village huts. The villagers were also busy with their own affairs. Xiao Ying instructed the villagers who were cutting down trees and quickly put all the wood into the Love Ring, which saved the villagers from having to squeeze out people to transport the wood back and forth.

  Loaded with wood, back to the village, the whole village was like a large construction site. Within several hours, many thatched cottages had been neatly built by the villagers. It's hard to say whether to admire the diligence and efficiency of the villagers or the magic of the system.

  Back at the village entrance, I didn't see Du Shou, but instead an old man in his fifties or sixties was replacing him to receive refugees. However, it seemed that they had almost finished recruiting people, as the village had just been established and the system had only started to bring in some people to help the player start the basic functions of the village. Everything else would have to rely on the player's own efforts or wait for the system to refresh again.

  After removing the wood from the ring, Xiao Ying began to inspect the surroundings. In fact, it was just enjoying the respect of being called "Village Chief" by the villagers. However, since the village had just developed and those villagers were newly recruited, this Village Chief didn't have much authority. Except for a small number of people who were more polite, not many people called out to him.

  As they approached the village, they saw Du Shou leading a group of people to open up wasteland and cultivate it. Xiao Ying had forgotten that he was an agricultural master, wasn't it a waste not to make good use of this profession? So she walked over to greet him. As she got closer, she found that he had been frowning all along, so she asked in puzzlement: "What's wrong? Is there any problem? I think things are going smoothly now."

  "Smooth? Other resources are nothing. Each new villager only has 3 days of food, and crops take 10 days (system refresh time) to harvest. We're pioneering for the first time, and the first harvest takes 15 days. Now we don't have any food storage, when the villagers run out of food, they'll not only leave one by one but may also riot. Although there are only about a hundred villagers now, I'm not afraid of riots, but a series of terrible influences will follow. Development will slow down to an extreme degree, and no one will join this village. Moreover, it's clear that our village doesn't have any defensive power and can't withstand any impact. This is also something that can't be solved in the short term, all we can do is pray! Alas... there are too many problems!" Du Shou sighed, a string of problems followed one after another. Xiao Ying originally thought everything was developing smoothly, didn't expect there to be so many problems! But no matter what, the most pressing issue is still food!"

  "Hmm, can't we really solve the food problem? Alright, why don't we go to some other place to buy some, I have about 30 diamond coins here, it should be enough to buy a lot of food!" Xiao Ying said thoughtfully.

  "I didn't expect the master to be a rich man! That can also be considered a solution, but distant water cannot quench present thirst. Our place is too remote, and it takes time to come and go!" Du Shou sighed and said.

  "We can go hunting to solve the food problem first, and then think of a way out slowly. There's no dead end in the world! Don't worry about other things for now, just focus on farming, I'll take care of the hunting. By the way, how much development funds do you need? I still have 30 or so diamond coins here, not enough and we can think of another way!"

  Strategy mode games like Xiao Ying have also played a lot, usually it's either spending money to buy food or going hunting, there aren't many good ways out.

  "Hehe... Alright then, for now it's just the initial stage, and 10 gold coins will be more than enough to cover the development funds!" Du Shou smiled in satisfaction and nodded his head.

  "Alright, here's 100 gold coins. As the one in charge of internal affairs, keep some as reserve funds. It won't be enough, but just get through the initial stages and it'll be easier later!" Xiao Ying handed over 100 gold coins to Du Shou.

  Hmph... In this place, even with money, there's nowhere to spend it. However, in "Yu Wang", relying on killing monsters for income, money is indeed extremely hard to come by. If not for killing two BOSSes, the other gains combined wouldn't even add up to 1 gold coin.

  Next, he discussed with Du Shou to divide the current villagers into ten parts. Seven-tenths of them would focus on developing agriculture, two-tenths would cut down trees for wood, and one-tenth would be assigned to mining. A small number of physically strong ones would go hunting, but mainly relying on Xiao Ying himself. Du Wei was still patrolling around to maintain law and order. Although Du Cheng had higher intelligence and more experience, the village was currently in its initial development stage, so there wasn't much use for him yet. Even training some militia couldn't be done, as Evil Shadow Village didn't even have a basic barracks, let alone a training camp. Hopefully, players wouldn't develop that quickly.

  Returned to the village and handed over to Du Wei and Du Cheng, Xiao Ying set off to hunt everywhere, just like leveling up. Unfortunately, Liuxing is still small and can't be ridden, otherwise with its speed, it would be possible to go to the nearest town to buy food and come back in time.

  In the following days, Xiao Ying almost ran through the Taoyuan Valley, and the wild animals in the valley were all affected. Although Xiao Ying couldn't catch some small animals because they were too fast and she didn't have long-range attacks, with Liuxing's help, even rabbits couldn't escape. Large animals such as wild boars, wild cattle, and wild horses weren't a problem for Xiao Ying and Liuxing as long as they worked together and the animals weren't in groups. After several days of hunting, Xiao Ying had also leveled up to 7. Her current attribute values were: Leadership 18, Strength 29, Intelligence 26, Politics 7, Charm 86, Perception 65, Luck 12.

  It's worth mentioning that, because Xiao Ying brings back a lot of prey every day, every villager has eaten the prey brought back by Xiao Ying, and the villagers' morale has risen to 80. Over the past few days, the number of villagers has been increasing steadily, and there are now nearly two hundred people. Among them, two Master-level blacksmiths and Master-level doctors have been discovered, unfortunately, no generals have been found. Another point is that during this period, Xiao Ying brought back two wild oxen and three wild horses to the village. As for how to tame them, it's not his concern anymore. If it weren't for Xiao Ying's ring only being able to hold dead objects, he might have caught even more.

  Thinking about it, there's indeed some frustration. Others become village heads, Xiao Ying also becomes a village head, but Xiao Ying is like a laborer, working hard to take care of the food problems of some villagers. However, this can't be helped, and fortunately, it's only a temporary problem. Once the initial stage is over, they can be freed from this responsibility. Honestly, hunting all day isn't what Xiao Ying hopes for either. What he most hopes for is that Evil Shadow Village will quickly develop, so he can lead his troops to go out and conquer. Don't mention Xiao Ying's violence; the Three Kingdoms are a stage of war after all.

  These days, the meteor has also grown a lot and is now about the size of a ordinary leopard. It can already ride short distances, but it's not yet mature, so its specific data is still unknown. However, it's been the biggest contributor in these few days, catching most of the small animals like wild chickens, rabbits, and mountain cats that can't escape its paws. The villagers also love it very much, especially the children, who all know that their village chief often has a "beautiful" little white tiger by his side, which looks majestic but won't hurt people.

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