Adelaide was actually reluctant to go because the food there didn't taste very good, and she hadn't been to the ranch since she last looked for that white thing in the stable.
But Carly is a curious girl and she wanted to go, so Adelaide had no choice but to come along.
The farm is much larger than before, with rows of livestock sheds neatly arranged. Ed looked around and found it to be quite good overall, not messy at all. The hygiene and feed were well maintained, although the smell was unavoidable.
"My lord, my name is Oak. Cedar entrusted this place to me temporarily before he left." A man who looked a little younger than Cedar ran over and said breathlessly.
"Hmm, you did a good job. How are the new guys doing?" Ed wanted to see how the robbers were performing after a while.
"My lord, those people are all fine, and they did a good job. I paid special attention to them…" Oak actually wanted to say something else, but he swallowed the words back several times.
Because there are now more people and some women have given birth, the living space is a bit crowded now, but he didn't dare to say any of this because Sugi had already told him.
They are still living in the same kind of large dormitory-style housing they had when they first arrived. There are no houses like those in Taoyuan Village here.
So they still envied the villagers of Taoyuan Village, even though they had been there for almost two years and received the same treatment. But this house remained a source of anxiety for them.
Ed looked at the large area. This was the lower reaches of the small river in Peach Blossom Village. The water came down from the mountains to the west of the territory. As for whether it flowed into the larger river to the northeast of the territory, he didn't know.
The environment to the northeast was too harsh for him to be interested in, and the stream was not navigable; it shouldn't even be called a river, a creek would be more appropriate.
It's not that Ed doesn't want to build houses here, it's just that they can't cut down any more trees. The houses in these areas will have to wait until cement is produced before they can be built with bricks.
Even without being told, Ed knew that the house was only so big originally, but now that the population is increasing every day, it will definitely not be able to accommodate everyone.
"Oak, how many families do you have now?" Ed planned to get the plaster and build a batch of houses here first, to build the houses for the villagers who had started families, and then wait until his own castle was ready.
"My lord, there are about 10 families with children here now." Oak wondered why the lord was asking this.
"Yes, Oak, as you can see, a lot of trees have already been cut down in the western part of the territory. We still need to build ships and make fires for heating, so we can't cut down any more trees. Fir went out this time to look for building materials. Report the number and names of the families here to the steward. If we find building materials later, we'll build here first."
Oak could hardly believe his ears. He wondered if he had misheard. Was the lord going to build houses here like those in Peach Blossom Village?
"My...lord...is this true? I didn't hear wrong, did I?" Oak was so excited that he couldn't speak coherently.
Looking at the oak tree trembling slightly, Ed felt that it might have been built too late. The two places were in the same village and not far apart. One was a small villa, and the other was a thatched hut, a thatched hut where many people slept together. The sense of loss was too great.
"Yes, oak, that will be a priority for construction here."