Chapter Thirty-six: Gratitude Education

  In fact, Sheriff Bernard gave up his power and handed over the task of building a new house to Marlon because in this world, houses are built at an extremely fast speed!

  Although he didn't have the spells "turning fossils into mud" or "turning mud into stone", so the Druid master who was good at it could build a house with ease, but with the help of Clawde, how could the speed of building a house be slow?

  At a distance of less than one mile from the orphanage still under construction, not only is it facing the sea with warm spring and blooming flowers, but also has a rare small hill with a clear spring.

  Lithariel the Druid Master spent only one day's work to create a beautiful new dwelling framework made up of hundreds of trees intertwined and gathered together, with more than ninety large rooms!

  Trees cannot be fully assembled into a windproof house, but with the construction team composed of three hundred good boys from the orphanage, this problem is not a problem at all - whether it's installing doors and windows or laying floors and nailing roofs, these good boys have fully demonstrated the truth that many people have great power, and completed the construction with a clang.

  The construction quality of these young people has nothing to do with livability, taste and style, it can only be said that it is slightly more intact than the degree of blocking wind and rain.

  But then, the artistic and elegant Master Lide Rui, in front of the door, behind the house, and even on the roof, sprinkled various flower seeds, and then made these flower seeds sprout, immediately giving people a feeling that this new home is a paradise on earth!

  Then, Master Litudru, with his own hands, showed off a carving skill of master level. He found a piece of wood as tall as two people and carved it into a forest goddess standing beside the clear spring water.

  "In this way, this place can barely be inhabited for a long time."

  Having done all this, Master Liruid finally clapped his hands and muttered to himself in a rather satisfied tone.

  After muttering to himself, Master Druid Lycan set off in the direction of the orphanage with his animal companion Rucas - he was going to "catch" Marlon.

  Although the unrest has subsided, the destroyed slums will not be rebuilt so quickly, so Marlon has been staying in the orphanage for several days, taking meticulous care of more than 600 orphans and war veterans who have completely lost their homes.

  Ma Long, who was just a volunteer before, only truly understood after taking on practical responsibilities that managing the daily lives of hundreds of people is absolutely not an easy task!

  Not to mention other things, just talking about eating this dish almost made Ma Long rush out of his head.

  The original team of 300 workers, plus the more than 600 orphans and war veterans now, made a total of almost 1,000 mouths waiting to be fed at every meal.

  Even if it's just one piece of bread per person per meal, that's still 1,000 pieces of bread!

  Moreover, according to Ma Long's dietary standards, although the dishes for each meal can't be said to be sumptuous, at least there should be one dish, one soup and a fruit...

  After the great chaos, Baisha City's prices rose slightly due to shortages, and it was also more difficult to purchase supplies.

  Finally, Ma Long swallowed his pride and begged the mayor, who eventually solved the problem temporarily by specially approving the purchase of remaining military supplies.

  Speaking of the mayor, this poor mayor is actually quite capable and bold. He has successfully diverted the anger of the Baisha citizens in various ways, and the reconstruction work of Baisha City is also proceeding efficiently.

  These people in this other world, after all, are not living in a highly informatized Earth world. They are easily misled by the media. Even if there are only a few smart people who can see the problem, they don't have a channel to make their discovered problems public...

  As for the Secretary of State from Nieuwentijt, he probably wanted to avoid suspicion and wash his hands of the matter, so on the third day after the riot broke out, he found a reason to leave Whitesand City by boat and head north to another port city, Brest.

  Before leaving, Secretary of State Dyer sent an old man with a gilt-edged business card, saying that if Marlon was willing to go to the capital Phenicco, he could take the card directly to find him - it seemed that this Secretary of State had the idea of recruiting Marlon to work for him.

  However, as for this kind of official business, even without Chief Barnard's warning, Marlon absolutely had no desire to get involved. At most, he was just a well-known figure in Baisha City who occasionally helped the mayor with some advice in order to gain various conveniences.

  For example, public opinion guidance and so on...

  After all, Mayor's "Three Wins Plan" which made Ma Long famous overnight had been known by the mayor.

  Otherwise, after the riot occurred, how could Mayor and that Secretary of State come to find Marlon for a closed-door meeting first?

  In short, Baisha Town is recovering day by day, and people's emotions have also returned to rationality after experiencing extreme anger at first - hot blood can't be eaten as food, right?

  Compared with the time before the riot, people's lives now have only one more thing called "Malong brand" and a popular card game called "Fight for the Aristocracy" in every street and alley.

  Every day after noon, on the shaded streets, there will be countless people sitting in groups of three, you throw "Floating Boat", I shout "Double Small Clown Explosion"…

  As far as the eye can see, the whole city is full of fluttering colorful streamers.

  And what was Malong doing while the citizens of Baisha City were busy fighting against the nobles?

  Ma Long had no time to fight with the nobles, because he had to tell those warm stories to the three or four hundred war orphans left in the orphanage, and to the slightly fewer wounded veterans.

  It doesn't matter if everyone sits further away, a "Sound Amplifying Stone" made by Musa-Mein solved the problem with ease.

  But even so, most of the war orphans would try to sit in the place closest to Malong, and then look up at him with a face full of worship as he told stories...

  The closest position to Ma Long is only that many, and Xiao Hu Nu Ai Mi, Ma Long's younger brother An Wei, and Adela, who serves as the recorder, will also occupy three places. The war orphans even fought for a place, so Ma Long had to establish rules.

  Ma Long found a large stone slab to use as a blackboard, then every morning he would write a few simple characters on the stone slab with charcoal and teach the children how to read them, distributing paper to the kids.

  These simple characters are the children's homework. Only the child who completes their homework best on paper can earn the qualification to sit in the front row closest to Malong.

  This world is ultimately a world that has shaken off darkness and ignorance. The rule "those who labor with their minds govern others, while those who labor with their bodies are governed by others" also applies here.

  So, even if teaching these children to read and write would cost a lot of extra paper and ink, Ma Long still thinks it's worth it - giving someone a fish is not as good as teaching them how to fish.

  It's best that once the orphanage is almost built, we immediately find some suitable teachers to set up a full-time school to systematically teach these little guys cultural knowledge.

  In another ten or twenty years, these children will be able to repay this orphanage that has given them a second life.

  To achieve this goal, Ma Long selectively told stories that were mostly extracted and adapted from books such as "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and "Soushen Ji", some of which were stories of repaying kindness - "repay kindness with kindness, repay resentment with straightforwardness".

  Ma Long wants these children to have a grateful heart.