Ranch Story: Start Over

After lunch, everyone had just finished their rest and heard the horn outside. Uncle Gotz said to Feng Ling:

"Let's go, Feng Ling. Thomas is coming. He will inspect the property. After he pays the tax, the rest will be ours."

I didn't expect that Uncle Thomas would come so efficiently when he heard that there was wood to be handed over to the Mineral Town Government. At this moment, when Uncle Thomas walked into the door and saw:

"Wow, there are so many people here? I didn't catch up with Feng Ling when she was cooking. What a coincidence."

"Uncle Thomas, you can stay for dinner tonight. You are warmly welcome."

After Thomas readily agreed, he looked around as if he was looking for someone. Finally, he found the dwarf goblin Zhuokak hiding behind Feng Ling. However, judging from Thomas' expression, they seemed to have known each other before.

Thomas said to Zhuokak helplessly:

"Little guy, I told you to move to town and live there. You didn't even want to get a certificate from the human world. What do you want me to do to make you feel at ease?"

"..."

"Uncle Thomas, do you know him?"

Feng Ling was still very surprised. The distrust revealed in Zhuokak's previous words made him extremely wary of humans, and now, it seemed that these little guys were overthinking.

"Yes, I have seen this little guy many times more than ten years ago, but he always felt that we had bad intentions towards him. But it's okay. I heard from Gotz that he is willing to follow you to manage your ranch. That's the same. When you go back to my place and get the resident ID certificate, it means that his identity in the human world has been proved."

Thomas didn't want to dwell on this little problem at all. Although Zhuokak and the others were goblins, as long as they were not the evil goblins, it would be fine. However, most of the goblins living in the human world were easy to talk to. Only in those extreme areas, the goblins there were difficult to get along with.

Feng Ling looked at Zhuokak behind him, touched his head and smiled at him. Although he was very resistant to approaching the human world, it was already very brave of him to be willing to contact him.

Thomas announced to all the people who contributed at the scene:

"It's the same old rule, everyone. Half of this wood will be handed over to the government, and the rest is yours. You can decide how to divide it. The wood handed over this time will be recorded in the Mineral Town's contribution materials, okay?"

Those who knew the benefits of resource development in Mineral Town cheered. Feng Ling didn't quite understand, so he quickly pulled Lin over and asked in a low voice:

"Senior sister, senior sister, what's going on with this resource construction?"

"As long as you participate in ten resource construction submissions, you can obtain the title of honorary resident for one year."

So that's how it is. This seems not bad. Feng Ling originally thought that Thomas came here to do the job for free, but he didn't expect that he was just judging others by his own narrow-mindedness.

Just like that, Gotz led the way, Thomas followed behind, and the others also followed along the way. Feng Ling was curious about how Thomas could take away so many pieces of wood. Looking around, the river was filled with dense wood. Did he use magic to roll them all up?

As a result, when Thomas made his move, Feng Ling was shocked. Thomas did not do anything fancy. He just reached out his hand to the river. Huge pieces of driftwood disappeared directly in his hand. Like a bottomless pit, countless pieces of driftwood rushed towards Thomas one after another.

Feng Ling was really stunned. There was such a huge storage space. Uncle Thomas was so amazing.

Thomas was a good person and he did good things to the end. He collected all the driftwood in the water into the storage space at once. When he finished collecting them, he walked to the huge open space behind Feng Ling's house, asked Feng Qingyang for his opinion, and after he agreed, he took out half of the wood and placed it neatly on the ground.

1500 huge logs were scattered around the site. Thomas smiled happily and said to everyone:

"Okay, I've divided all the wood into 1000 pine trees, 200 birch trees, 200 metasequoia trees, and 100 cypress trees. Zhuokak, you guys are really amazing. You got 100 cypress trees. Didn't the beavers' teeth break?"

Thomas made a little joke, but Zhuokak looked a little sad and nodded. Seeing Feng Ling looking at him with concern:

"Several of their teeth were broken, but the beavers prayed to the goddess together and their teeth were restored."

"Uh, no way, Zhuoka, how did you manage to trick them into chewing the wood?"

Feng Ling is more interested in this.

"I don't know. We promised to provide them with bread, and they agreed. It took us a year to make bread with wheat flour to get this result."

These little guys really have a special liking for wheat flour. It seems that I must plant a large field of wheat as a fixed income for Zhuokak and the others, Feng Ling thought.

Goetz and his partners now finally had time to take a good look at the quality of the wood. Before, they only took a cursory look at the appearance of the underwater driftwood. The wood processed by Thomas was neatly arranged in his storage space after the surface layer of moisture was removed.

"Feng Ling, Zhuo Kak, both of you come and challenge me. It will be convenient to start the fight while Thomas is here. Otherwise, after he leaves, there will be many things that we want to do that we can't do."

Gotz called out to the people around him loudly. Feng Ling walked over curiously, not understanding what Uncle Gotz meant. But when Gotz demonstrated it, Feng Ling was stunned again.

It was as simple as drinking water and eating. Gotz pulled Thomas and pointed here and there, and then told Thomas that these parts were not needed to be longer, and that part needed to be cleared. When the wood that Thomas had put back into the storage space was put on the ground again, it was all processed by him. Even the outer skin of the wood was peeled off, revealing the white trunk, completely eliminating the need for manual cleaning. This kind of work that is usually very difficult for ordinary people to clean seems to be solved by Thomas with his storage space.

Everyone took their turn without hesitation. Feng Ling was not in any hurry to make a selection. One reason was that he had never picked wood before, and the second was that if nothing unexpected happened, all the towering trees would be in his hands, and he was the only one who had the power to handle them.

Thomas walked over to Feng Ling and spoke:

"Feng Ling, how about this? I'll give you all the wood from the towering trees. Although there aren't many, only about 100 pieces, you'll definitely need them in the future, and they're the most suitable main wood for building a house. Then you pick 50 pieces of pine wood as yours and Zhuokak's. How about that? I can help you process these pine trees for free. You see, I charge a 5% labor fee for other people who ask me to process them."