Chapter 51: Beastmen Will Never Be Slaves!
“Ask Pansear to help fire bricks?”
Hearing this, Ryan was slightly taken aback.
Lei Wen nodded: “Pansear is a Fire Type monster that can spew extremely high-temperature flames from its mouth, so I want to hire it to work for this territory.”
“As compensation, I will provide it with more food and candy.”
Lei Wen paused slightly as he said this.
From the original owner’s memories, it was known that besides the large amount of supplies he carried, the Old King had also prepared a large sum of Gold Coins for him.
In this ancient era without alliance coins, Gold Coins were the circulating currency.
However, for the current territory, any amount of Gold Coins would be useless, and the territory currently had no taxes, so Lei Wen had no way to distribute Gold Coins as compensation.
“I need to discuss this matter with Pansear,” Ryan said, scratching his head.
“That’s only right,” Lei Wen nodded.
Thus, Ryan chose to take his leave.
He left the Lord’s Hall and returned to his Wooden House.
Pushing open the door, Ryan saw several monsters, led by Pansear, waiting for his return at home.
He finally had a home too!
A feeling unlike any before surged in Ryan’s heart.
He personally cooked a very sumptuous Dinner for these monsters.
There was Fish Soup, Fruit, and Bread.
After the meal, Ryan found Pansear and conveyed Lei Wen’s words from earlier to it.
“By the way, Pansear, Prince Lei Wen asked me to ask you today if you are willing to work for this territory.”
“Bake?” Upon hearing this, Pansear showed a confused expression. It seemed it didn’t understand what this meant.
“Lei Wen wants to hire you, to ask you to use your flames to help fire Clay Bricks. As compensation, His Highness will provide you with more Food and Candy.”
Ryan scratched his head and added:
“Don’t worry, if you don’t want to do it, we won’t!”
He did not tell Pansear about the territory’s difficulties, nor did he use their emotions to request it, because that would be too much of a burden on Pansear.
However, Pansear is a very intelligent Pokémon.
Even though Ryan didn’t say it, it could sense it.
Because these days, it had witnessed the territory’s situation with its own eyes.
“Bake…”
Pansear cast its gaze towards the Searching Mouse beside it.
It was the people of this territory who helped save the sick Searching Mouse, and if it could also help, it didn’t mind lending a hand.
After all, just using flames was something it could do with ease.
“Bake!” Pansear nodded gently.
“You agree?” Ryan couldn’t help but ask.
“Bake!” Pansear gave an affirmative answer.
The next day, the work of firing bricks officially began with Pansear’s help.
As the Lord of this territory, Lei Wen specifically chose a time to visit and observe the entire process of firing Clay Bricks.
Workers used wooden molds to shape the processed Clay into square brick blanks. Once the brick blanks became dry, they were neatly arranged into the domed Brick Kiln that the workers had previously built.
Finally, it was Pansear’s performance time.
It opened its mouth, and with a flash of fire, a stream of intensely burning flames immediately gushed out.
Time ticked by.
Flames engulfed the entire Brick Kiln. Under the scorching heat of these extremely high-temperature Flamethrowers, the minerals in the brick blanks within the Brick Kiln underwent rapid chemical changes. The brick blanks glowed red like heated metal, looking extremely beautiful.
Seeing this scene, the Blacksmith Morik couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
He signaled Pansear to stop spewing fire, then walked up to Lei Wen and reported:
“Reporting to Your Highness, the firing of the bricks has been preliminarily completed. All that remains is to wait for these red bricks to cool down to be considered completely finished.”
Cooling would take about one to two days.
Lei Wen nodded; they had plenty of time now.
Lei Wen ordered everyone to disperse and return the next morning to inspect the results.
As compensation for Pansear’s help, Lei Wen had someone deliver a large amount of Food and Candy to it.
In front of Ryan’s Wooden House, Pansear was stunned by the pile of Candy and Berries before it.
It looked at the Maid in front of it in disbelief: “Bake?!” So much!
The Maid looked at the monster in front of her and explained with a smile: “These are all from Prince Lei Wen. His Highness said he is very grateful that you are willing to help.”
“Bake…” But this is too much.
Pansear was at a loss for words for a moment.
After all, when they were in the wild before, they had to put in a lot of effort to find just a few Berries to fill their stomachs.
Now, it only needed to help with some fire and it received so many Berries and Candy…
Pansear was stunned, its face full of disbelief.
So, so much food!
“Prince Lei Wen is a very benevolent Prince,” Ryan said with a smile. “Please accept it, Pansear, this is what you deserve.”
“Bake…” Pansear was deeply moved and immediately decided to work even harder for Prince Lei Wen in the future.
Not only Pansear, but the Searching Mouse, Pidgey, and Puffy Mushroom beside it also showed expressions of surprise.
So this is what it’s like to get so much food by helping humans?
Could they help too?
At this moment, something quietly changed in the hearts of these few Pokémon.
Lei Wen was unaware of all of this.
That evening, a Blizzard began to rage outside.
The biting cold wind, carrying swirling snowflakes, raged past the window.
Lei Wen listened to Elif’s report while looking out at the scene outside the window.
In the Wooden House, five Poffins were huddled by the window, gazing at the Blizzard outside, their small faces filled with worry.
Even Snivy, whose Emotions rarely fluctuated, now showed a trace of worry.
Only the Dratini seemed oblivious, comfortably nestled on Lei Wen’s clothes, fast asleep.
“Your Highness, the Blizzard has arrived,” Elif said with deep concern.
Lei Wen hummed; he had already seen it.
Fortunately, they had prepared in advance, built a Wooden House to shield them from the wind and snow, gathered enough Food, and collected enough Wood for warmth.
December had passed, and it was now mid-January. The next month or so would be the coldest period of the entire year.
Lei Wen pondered as he spoke, “Elif, issue an order for everyone in the territory to pay attention to warmth and prevent illness. Also, when the Blizzard hits, the Mine will temporarily halt operations and resume once the snow stops.”
“There’s a little over a month left, and winter will be over. Everyone just needs to persevere a little longer.”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
Timely snow signals a good harvest.
Gazing at the falling snow outside the window, the crops next year would surely yield a great harvest, Lei Wen couldn’t help but think.
