Chapter 137 Peas

Hearing Byron's words, Gawain was finally stunned: "Girl?"

"Yeah..." Knight Byron's face almost wrinkled into an abstract painting, "I only discovered it when I was bathing her, and it shocked me at the time!"

Gawain's eyebrows twitched twice, and he looked at the middle-aged knight with a strange expression: "Don't say what you have in mind, the child is probably not yet ten years old, okay?"

When Byron heard this, he quickly waved his hand: "It's impossible, I'm not a mercenary, but I'm not so vulgar, but I think I'm afraid I can't adopt her..."

Gawain found it interesting, so he was not in a hurry to continue to study his own information, but looked into Mr. Knight's eyes: "Why? Just because she is a woman, you don't think you can adopt her as your heir? I can't see you Still an old-fashioned guy in that regard."

"Of course it's not because of this," Byron said with a bitter face, "she saved my life, and it's fine for me to pass on my martial arts and property to her, but I'm a big idiot... how can I raise one well? Girl? I thought it was a boy at first, but now I don't know what to do..."

Gawain had a half-smile, but his eyes suddenly passed over Knight Byron's body and looked in the direction of the tent door.

A thin, small figure was standing there.

Byron also realized something, hesitantly looked back, and sure enough, what he saw was the little mute who secretly ran after him at some point.

He... she had already taken a bath, combed her hair, and changed into a clean sackcloth dress, but that "stray and dirty child turns into a little princess after bathing and changing clothes" did not happen to this child . Now she could tell she was a girl, but she didn't look much better than before: chronic malnutrition and overworked labor left her looking sallow and thin, with rough skin and hair draped in a clump of dry weeds. On her head, even after grooming, her body was dry and thin, and her face was shriveled and sunken due to lack of nutrition, and there was nothing cute about her.

She ran over in a daze, as if she didn't realize until this moment that this place can't be rushed, and now she is standing at the door dumbfounded, and at the same time carefully put her hands and feet together, her face is full of nervousness and helplessness.

She should have heard the conversation between Gawain and Byron just now.

"Your daughter has come to find you." Gawain glanced at Byron with a smile, and then waved to the dumb girl at the door, asking the child to come over.

"Sir..." Byron cried out a little helplessly, but then saw the little mute walking towards him, the expression on his face quickly turned into embarrassment and anxiety, "You... why did you come here, not that this Is there no place to run around?"

"Byron," Gawain said, "I know you think it's difficult, but you can't put this child aside. Since you promised to adopt her, this commitment should not be based on any follow-up. conditions. Take good care of her."

"I..." Byron opened his mouth, but finally nodded, "Yes, I understand."

"When you encounter difficulties, you can ask for help. There are people in the territory who know how to take care of children. Don't let go of your knighthood—and I guess you don't have such an air," Gawain laughed, "This child not only saves She helped me because I was able to solve the crisis in Tanzania. This child has brought good luck to our territory, and we cannot treat her badly."

Knight Byron nodded in agreement,

The little mute blinked and looked at Gawain and then at Byron. She could understand what these people were saying, but she didn't understand the profound content of knights and territories, so she seemed a little dazed.

At this time, Gawain suddenly asked, "Does she have a name?"

"Name?" Byron seemed to think of this at this time, "Oh, by the way, I don't know her name yet... I was panicking when I patronized before."

"She should have a name, but unfortunately she can't speak, I'm afraid none of us can know what her name is," Gao Wen glanced at the little mute, "Do you want us to give you a name?"

The dumb child immediately stretched out his hand and gestured, but Gawain and Byron didn't understand what she meant at all. After a difficult communication failed, the dumb boy suddenly cried out "uh", and then ran out in a trot. tent.

Gawain and Byron looked at each other blankly, then decided to wait and see, but after a long time, the child ran back out of breath.

She stretched out her hand in front of Gawain, with a few peas lying in her palm.

After reacting for a long time, Gao Wen guessed the meaning of the child: "You mean, your name is Pea?"

The dumb boy nodded vigorously, gripping the belt of the sackcloth skirt a little harder with one hand, and pushing the pea a little further with the other.

This time it was Byron who reacted: "You don't want a new name, you just want to continue to be called 'pea'?"

The dumb child nodded vigorously again.

"This name should have been given by her parents. If it was the name given by the businessman who cut off her tongue, she wouldn't take it so seriously," Gawain guessed. Let's hope she can fill her stomach."

Saying that, he reached out and pressed Pea's hair - it really felt like a mass of weeds.

"Although she can't speak, she can understand. You have to pay attention to your words and deeds in the future and set an example for your children," Gawain glanced at Byron with a smile, and remembered something at the same time, "By the way, The purchase of serfs and the transfer of refugees in Tanzania Town is now assisted by Viscount Andrew, so you don't need to watch it yourself. You can leave this matter to a few shrewd and capable men. I have a new task for you. ."

Hearing that there was a new mission, Knight Byron immediately straightened up and his expression became serious.

"Don't be so nervous, the mission location is in the territory - I want you to organize a group of people to go to the ruins in the Dark Mountains to check the situation."

Byron became curious: "Are you ready to fully explore there?"

"Viscount Andrew dug up the fragments of the Eternal Slate under the Tanzanian Mine. I am increasingly worried about the ruins in our territory, and I have to speed up the progress," Gawain nodded, "You are from a mercenary, yes You should have some experience in exploring such ruins, find some cautious and courageous experts, bring the best equipment, first check all the corridors and rooms on the shallow level, and draw a map. I don't ask for speed, I ask for safety And meticulous—I don't want experienced fighters to die in that place, nor do I want you to miss something important, understand?"

Byron straightened up: "Yes, don't worry, I do have some experience in this area, and I won't let you down."

Knight Byron left, and Gawain walked out of the tent and looked at the territory that was growing day by day.

Not long ago, it was just a "camp".

The frost moon is approaching, the weather is getting colder day by day, but the new Cecil Land is getting on the right track. The first generation of the magic engine (after the adjustment and optimization of Nicholas Egg, from a prototype to a practical machine) is now officially Appearing in front of the people, this strange-shaped but powerful machine that relies on magic power but can be controlled by ordinary people has shocked many people's attention. When they were just put into use, many serfs and civilians. Even looking at those machines with fearful eyes - they seem to think that there are countless invisible little devils living between the repulsion mechanism and the connecting rod bearing, and it is the devil's hand that pushes those heavy and terrible steel to run. Therefore, it is difficult to recruit the operators of the machine, and even forced means to ensure that each machine has enough manpower to operate...

But this ignorant and ridiculous situation lasted only a short time.

At Gao Wen's request, the territory has a system of "propaganda" and "education", and all new things—whether it is a new law or a new machine—must be read and educated to the people repeatedly, and Gao Wen made up his mind. The idea is to eradicate ignorance and ignorance from this land, so within a few days it became known that those machines were a brand new magical device that could be manipulated by ordinary people not because there were demons in the machines that were absorbing ordinary people Soul and flesh and blood, but the crystallization of wisdom and technology.

Gao Wen deliberately emphasized the existence of "ordinary people" in the entire machine R&D team in the propaganda, especially engraved the names of all the craftsmen who participated in the early research and development on the surface of the machine, and those craftsmen lived with everyone on weekdays, As a result, they gained countless admiration and admiration, and what Gawain gained was the increasingly active spirit of those once numb and ignorant serfs and commoners.

Now in the territory, you can already see ordinary people walking around with smiles on their faces.

Under the surging power of the magic engine, the various basic productions of the territory are proceeding at an astonishing speed.

The mine is pulling mine carts and pumping seepage water with magic engines. The supply of iron ore is becoming stable. Now the only thing that restricts the supply is the uneven road between the mine and the steel plant, and Gawain has already ordered the construction of the mine. In this section of the road, with the help of Heidi's magic, it is not difficult to level and build a simple road.

The production progress of the machine factory is astounding. The golden thighs of the iron ball star (although he has no legs) are stronger than Gawain expected. All kinds of simple lathes he can think of are being produced around the clock, if not With the rune furnace powered by magic net and sufficient ore supply in advance, I am afraid that the steel reserves of the entire territory will not be able to keep up with the consumption rate of Nicholas eggs.

The brick kiln factory has already used a simple molding machine from the machinery factory, and the "cement" that Rebecca tossed with has also achieved preliminary results. The problem is still very big, but Gawain can already consider separating the territory from wooden houses and tents and entering the stage of "hard house"...

In this stage of smooth development of material construction, the biggest problem is the shortage of talents.

Labor is not a problem for the time being, because the area opened up by the territory is temporarily so large, but there are not enough talents to maintain and continue to promote the new machinery and new technologies that are constantly emerging.

Technological progress cannot be accomplished by a few people—although a few geniuses may indeed produce something that can change the times, but to popularize these things and form a sustainable industrial chain, it requires a large number of medium and low end technicians.

There are not many "geniuses" among those hundred people, not even many talents.

Not everyone who is deviant and rejected by mainstream society is a genius, and many times they are rejected by mainstream society simply because of their low EQ - but the lost EQ does not turn into skill points added to IQ.

Although Gawain had said something like "the territory welcomes deviants", it was more to encourage and inspire himself. He knew that it was unrealistic to expect the capital to screen out a hundred changers of the times for him. And that's exactly the fact: in the 100 people, apart from a valuable talent like Jenny and a few good seedlings, the rest are basically mediocre people, who may be able to complete their jobs, but cannot ask for it. More.

I don't know how many intellectuals Viscount Andrew can find for him... Considering the overall education level of this era, I can't expect too much.

At this moment, a shout from not far away suddenly interrupted Gawain's thinking.

"Lord Ancestor~! Lord Ancestor~!" Rebecca yelled and ran towards this side, waving her signature iron staff while running. He was waving a large roll of paper in his hand.

Gawain shuddered subconsciously when he saw the iron staff in this girl's hand - this is another test of the resting stick from the ancestors?

But then he saw that Jenny was following behind Rebecca. The rune master had more scrolls in her hands. She ran after Rebecca very hard, and greeted Rui as she ran. Becca slow down.

Only then did Gawain breathe a sigh of relief: It seems that Rebecca didn't come to murder the ancestors...

After the two ran in front of them, Gao Wen looked at his great*N+1 granddaughter curiously: "Slow down, take your breath away—what's the matter with you?"

"I... We studied the wild mage's notes and... and those rune laws," Rebecca breathed hard, and finally took a deep breath and said, "Then we calculated the infinite expansion structure of the magic net. Out!!"

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