Three days after the battle outside the New Great Wall.
Ark Harbor was still calm, but it was not quiet. Instead, it was very noisy. During the day, there would be a huge commotion in the ruins of the city. It was the sound of the residents rebuilding the city.
Half of the city had been cleared, and all the rubble and waste soil had been transported away. The former White Castle had begun to be rebuilt. The low walls and gates around the White Castle had been built, and now people were paving the plaza. As for the original site of White Castle, it had now become a construction site, and people were building the foundation.
Orlando personally went into battle, carrying the thick stone pillars to the foundation and placing them in the position designated by the engineer.
Jorah watched all of this with a smile on her face.
Her stomach could already bulge, so it was naturally inconvenient for her to help. She could only do some work on the construction site to boil water. She looked at the construction site on White Castle and Orlando's sweating figure. She felt very happy.
Orlando had worked hard to make himself a good husband since his marriage, and now he had. He succeeded in making Jorah forget many things, as well as that person. Now, in Jorah's heart, he was the only one.
On the construction site, perhaps noticing Jorah's gaze, Orlando turned around and grinned, waving his hand.
Jorah also waved her hand in greeting.
"Lord Orlando is really good to Madam." A maid behind him smiled and said, "I thought if I could find a man, I would be satisfied if I could be half as good as an adult."
The other maid laughed and scolded, "Don't be amorous, okay?"
Jorah shook her head and smiled, "Stop messing around. Let's go. We have to work too."
The women boiled water by the construction site, and at noon, they cooked food for the men. Jorah also cooked personally, but there was no kitchen on the construction site, and the tools were simple and crude. Of course, she couldn't cook any good dishes. She placed slices of marinated beef on a shelf and sprinkled salt and other things when the meat was cooked to fifty or sixty percent. When the meat was seventy percent cooked, he took it out and put it on the plate. Then, he continued to roast something else.
When Orlando returned from the construction site, a plate was filled with food. Orlando tore off a small piece of beef and threw it into his mouth. "It tastes so good," he said as he chewed.
"Of course, Madam made it." A maid brought the water and said.
Orlando took a sip and asked, "Is there any wine?"
"Yes, Madam won't let me drink." The maid whispered.
"I heard it." Ruo La rolled his eyes and laughed. "All right, all right, let him drink some. Otherwise, he will annoy me to death later."
Orlando shrugged and said, "Don't treat me like an old man in his seventies or eighties, dear."
When the maid went to fetch the wine, Orlando had already begun to sweep the food on the plate. The food and building materials were delivered by Edward's men. Almost every day, a Horse team would deliver all sorts of things. Moreover, Edward had also sent over an army of about two thousand people. It wasn't much, but it was enough.
Looking at Orlando eating, Jorah said, "I wonder what's going on with the Iron Spear Collar."
"Not good, not good at all." Orlando put down the plate and said in a heavy voice, "Edward regularly sends news from all over the empire. Not long ago, a great battle broke out in Iron Spear Ridge and the New Great Wall in the north."
"Is it those monsters?" Ruo La's eyes widened.
Orlando nodded and said, "Edward calls them the Burning Legion. The Burning Legion has attacked many cities and territories in the empire, but the two battles at the Iron Spear Collar and the New Great Wall are the most severe." On the other side of the Iron Spear Collar, the army of the Eastern Empire was almost crippled. Now, the remnants of the army have retreated into our Spear City and defended it with my father. As for the battle on the New Great Wall, it was even more tragic. General Woodrick of the Giant Dragon Army had died on the battlefield, and the Imperial Army had suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, the other army of the Coiling Dragon Empire did not drag them down and temporarily forced back the Burning Army. Now that Old Marshal Roderick has regained control of the army, he has transferred many troops back from everywhere to guard the imperial capital. "
"It's that serious?" Jorah said uneasily, "Then should we consider returning to Dawn Castle, in case …"
Orlando knew what she was going to say. He shook her hand and said, "It's the same anywhere. That day, King Ping Xi's army forced Edward to use up all his trump cards. Now that the Burning Army is even more ferocious, if they really attack, even Dawn Castle will be the same. "
"How could this be?" Jorah lowered her head and said, "I thought that with His Majesty Julian on the throne, we could finally pass the day peacefully. But first, the army of the Coiling Dragon Empire crossed the ocean, and then there was this burning army that came out of nowhere. What happened to this world? "
Orlando couldn't answer this question either. He patted Jorah's hand and said, "In fact, the Burning Legion once saved us. At that time, you were in Dawn Castle and did not know that in the war outside Bauhinia City, that burning army had participated in the war and repelled King Ji Wu's Blood Cloak Army. Even King Ji Wu died at the hands of the other party's leader. "
Jorah raised her head and said, "Then why is this army attacking cities everywhere now?"
"I don't know. Perhaps, there are two such armies?" Orlando said casually.
"The wine is here, the wine is here." The maid who had returned said proudly, holding a bottle of wine in her hand, "I found it for a long time. Lord Orlando, how are you going to thank me?"
"Give you a kiss?" Orlando asked deliberately.
Ruo La rolled his eyes. "In your dreams!"
There was a burst of laughter.
This kind of laughter could be heard from time to time in many places. Although the work of reconstruction was not easy, people could still find some kind of happiness in the work. Because this was their home.
At the edge of the city ruins, the army sent by Edward had built a weak line of defense here. There were a number of sentry posts on the line of defense. Each sentry post was guarded by a team of about seven to ten people, and they sent messages at a fixed time.
One of the sentry posts was a two-story building. Originally, the building should have been taller, but in the flames of war, the part above the second floor had been broken and collapsed, leaving only a few broken walls and half a staircase leading to the upper floor.
The soldiers used this small building as a temporary sentry post. Most of the soldiers patrolled nearby. One stayed downstairs, and the other was on the second floor. The second floor acted as a temporary sentry post? The function of the watchtower was that there were no tall buildings nearby, and the wilderness on the other side was wide open. Standing on the second floor, one could see a row of forest lines on the other side of the wilderness. If anything appeared in the wilderness, the soldiers on the second floor could see it clearly.
It was afternoon, and the soldiers who had eaten were dozing off in the shadows with their guns in their arms. Suddenly, he heard the faint roar of a beast, and he jumped up with a start. Then he laughed self-deprecatingly. Ever since Edward had used the Desperate Strategy, a large part of the forest had been cleared. The animals in the forest had long since been chased away, so how could there be any beast roars?
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