Fearsome Farmer - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Li Siwen Was Here for a Visit

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

By evening, Li Siwen’s progress had already exceeded all the other farmers, and he was still the most energetic one.

The Vitality Point that he had obtained, he still used to increase the Stamina Point, becoming 13 points.

Without a doubt, the higher the Stamina Point was, the more resistant he would be to abnormal states, diseases, and labor injuries.

After returning to the territory, four wooden houses had already been built; the speed was astonishing. Of course, the main reason was that it was very crudely built. They were only two meters high—first, casually bury the wooden foundations into the ground, install the structures, then use tree leaves to cover the top first, then hay, then a layer of mud. There was only an opening to enter and exit, there wasn’t any door or window at all.

But it was still better than a thatched house. At least, it wouldn’t be so moist inside.

According to the population, five lumberjacks would occupy one wooden house, four hunters another one, and the 10 farmers to share the last two.

But even something like getting a new house also couldn’t increase their morale. After all, whether they were farmers or lumberjacks, the last two days had tired them out too much. Plus, the fact that someone just died and two farmers unconscious from heatstroke, the panic was spreading throughout the territory.

The reaction of the Feudal Lord was swift. For tonight’s dinner, everyone, really every single person in the territory, could have an extra meat broth without meat inside.

“If I was him, I would recruit a Hero unit with healing skills, not a supervisor like Sun Tieshi who’s all brawn and no brain. Maybe he’s regretting it right now, or maybe he’s still oblivious of this. Or maybe it’s because he really can’t recruit a unit selectively?”

Li Siwen thought about this. Then, after he was full from eating, he entered the new wooden house and fell asleep. Before anything, recovering the stamina was the most important thing.

This was a rare peaceful night that didn’t have an accident. After daylight, Li Siwen woke up full of energy, his 13 Stamina Points fully restored. After doing a few subtle and small stretches, his eyes froze. There were two corpses placed at the border of the territory again. The two unconscious farmers had still died.

They died quietly and didn’t even leave a name.

Li Siwen didn’t see the Feudal Lord, only Sun Tieshi, who had a long face. Sun Tieshi instructed two militiamen to carry the corpses onto piles of wood and burned them.

Everything proceeded as usual.

After collecting his dry food and water, Li Siwen carried his hoe and started his new day.

But when he was walking towards the wheat field, Li Siwen had decided to change the safety rules.

Previously, he assigned a Stamina Bar of two points and less as the red zone, three to five as the yellow zone, six and above as the green zone.

But now, he felt that his assessment was wrong. He had to think about the food he was eating and the environment he was living in. It was still okay when the weather was good, but what about the raining seasons? By that time, even if he hid in the wooden house, diseases would still come to the doorstep and find him. Furthermore, he didn’t believe that the Feudal Lord would take pity on them and let them rest when it was raining. Although they couldn’t clear the weeds during the rainy season, they could repair the canals, the roads, the grounds, and do many other chores. It wasn’t as if he could resist or run away, right?

Therefore, he must preserve his stamina at all costs. Stamina was his best medicine and support in fighting against diseases.

“Five and below I will set as the most dangerous red zone because this seems to be the point where the human body becomes exhausted. The resistance against diseases decreases by dozens of percent.”

“Six to ten can I will set as the yellow zone. When the stamina is depleted to this extent, the body will only feel slightly tired, but the muscles will be all warmed up. This is the stage where the work efficiency is at its highest and also the best stage to train the body.”

“11 and above is the safest green zone. At this stage, the body is full of energy and spirit, I will consider it being at my prime condition. As long as the body condition doesn’t fall into the yellow zone, it will recover at a speed of 200%.”

After readjusting the zones, Li Siwen also changed his target. Yesterday, he was still planning to obtain two Vitality Points a day. But now, it looks like this wasn’t enough. He definitely mustn’t let his stamina reach the red zone unless his life was in danger.

Therefore, one Vitality Point a day was just nice. He could also go to the river ditch to kill fishes to level up. He was also very curious about what the yellow orb would give him when it was filled up.

Supervisor Sun Tieshi didn’t have the mind to lecture the remaining farmers anymore. Other than Li Siwen, the conditions of the other seven farmers weren’t very good too. It filled their honest faces with worries.

Therefore, their weeding speed unanimously slowed down to only 60% of their usual speed. This was a good thing. After all, the weather was too hot and their stamina too little. If they continued to work at full force, they would get a heatstroke.

The Feudal Lord might have realized this too. Therefore, at 10 AM, when Sun Tieshi appeared again, he announced that they could rest for two hours at noon. But this was only limited to these few days when the weather was at its hottest.

Hearing this, Li Siwen instantly thought about the fishes in the river ditch. This was an excellent opportunity.

The mechanism of the yellow orbs was similar to the green one. But maybe it was because one was for animals and one for plants. The yellow orb was only one-tenth full. This meant that he had to kill 100 small fishes to light up the yellow orb. Thinking of this, it filled him with anticipation.

But a plan was just a plan, Li Siwen definitely wouldn’t allow himself to recklessly go about doing it. He must plan and prevent all kinds of accidents from happening first. He also had to allocate his stamina and maintain his speed of weeding too.

When it was around 11 AM, he had successfully accumulated half a ball of green dots, but only depleted six Stamina Points. This was mainly because he had more time to rest and less weeding to do.

Afterward, he took a break, ate the dry food, replenished the water in his body, and successfully recovered his stamina to 10 points. It wouldn’t be a problem to increase his Stamina Points to 14 by evening.

After looking at the other farmers who were making use of the time to rest, Li Siwen carried his hoe and leisurely walked around the wheat field. Since it was rare that he had any spare time, he could use this opportunity to familiarize himself with the nearby surroundings.

This patch of field looked rather level, with only a small hill in the center. From the north of the hill, he could directly see the Feudal Lord’s territory. There were a total of eight wheat fields here.

To the south of the hill, there were four wheat fields. The height difference of the hill wasn’t very large, he could cross the hill with just 10 plus steps.

At the end of the southwest direction along the hill was the river ditch. The source of the water was from the northeast direction and flowed southwest until it entered the large river on the west side.

Crossing the river ditch and continuing south for two or three miles, a large piece of forest was located there. It was the border of the forest in the south.

Li Siwen memorized the location where Sun Tieshi and the lumberjacks crossed the river ditch every day. There, he found that pear tree again, right next to the area where the farmers used it as a toilet. From there, he found a point of the river ditch that curved. Firstly, he used the hoe to check the surroundings to make sure there wasn’t any danger around, then started making a stone dam trap in the river ditch.

This wasn’t a difficult technique, just making use of the change in the water current to decrease the difficulty of catching fishes. When he was a village boy, Li Siwen had done this until he was sick of it.

Naturally, there weren’t only fishes inside the creek, there were prawns and toads inside too.

The prawns were too small, so he passed on them, but he wouldn’t pass the toads. Of course, for safety reasons, Li Siwen used the hoe to attack from a distance.

Momentarily, he had quite a good reward, and he was excited from killing… No, that wasn’t possible. Every time he killed a fish or toad, he would instantly go check the vicinity for ‘enemies’. The tension was akin to that of a war between spies.

Just like this, he calculated his time carefully, and after an hour, he instantly recovered the scene and cleared his tracks. At the same time, he left a pile of ‘evidence’, in case he was exposed, so he could have a reason to justify himself.