"Seeing someone's panic, Ann couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly, but she still answered truthfully: 'Ms. Riveria also asked us not to wake you up right away and asked Lady Artoria to go over first.'"
"Now that Lady Artoria has gone over, I don't know what they are going to say."
When Takumi heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it seemed that Riveria was not angry with him; otherwise, it would not have been Artoria who was called over, but him.
However, Takumi felt that it was still necessary to hurry over to avoid a fire in the backyard.
With this thought in mind, Takumi stopped washing slowly and cast a cleansing magic directly on himself.
"I'll go over and take a look; you guys go back to work."
After talking to Ann and the others, Takumi rushed out the door.
However, when he quickly found Riveria and Artoria, he found that the two were whispering intimately, and he didn't know what they were saying. There was no sign of a tit-for-tat confrontation between them.
"Um? Takumi, you're awake."
The two of them also noticed Takumi's arrival and didn't pay much attention. Riveria even greeted Takumi with a smile.
"This is what you are doing?" Takumi was stunned, looking back and forth between the two of them, a little confused for a moment.
The scene in front of him was completely beyond his expectations.
Logically speaking, Riveria, who had been stood up, even if she wasn't furious, wouldn't have such a friendly attitude toward the culprit, the Saber-wielding idiot.
"What happened to us?" Riveria looked at Takumi and blinked, then said with a look of realization, "Are you talking about what happened yesterday? How about we settle the score for someone standing me up?"
Artoria was dumbfounded when she heard this and couldn't help but turn her head in embarrassment.
Because she also just learned that Takumi had an appointment with someone yesterday, and her behavior was essentially intercepting someone else's date.
"Well..."
Takumi's expression changed when he heard this, and he waved his hands in embarrassment. "No, just pretend I've never been here."
After saying that, he quickly slipped away to avoid being held accountable by Riveria.
Why did the two of them suddenly become like this?
Takumi didn't bother to worry too much. Anyway, as long as the backyard was harmonious, Takumi didn't want to get involved too much in their affairs if it wasn't necessary. It was too troublesome.
"Pfft..."
Seeing Takumi running away in embarrassment, Riveria couldn't help laughing.
After laughing, she turned to look at Artoria and said, "Then, please give me more advice in the future, Artoria."
"Well, I am here, so please take care of me." Artoria nodded and smiled back at Riveria.
In fact, Riveria's call to Artoria was not at all what Takumi thought. She didn't want to raise an army to hold the accused accountable.
In other words, Riveria was not angry with anyone about being stood up.
She would not be jealous about it because she had long accepted the situation.
Otherwise, if there were so many people around Takumi, she would have to get angry over every single one. If she were angry all the time, wouldn't she die of anger?
The main reason why she asked Artoria to come over was just to win her over.
As more and more people gathered around Takumi, Riveria also realized her limitations and felt it was very necessary to find some new allies.
Artoria's outlook on life was similar to hers, and her personality was also orderly and kind. She was more compatible with Riveria, so she planned to draw her into her camp.
Artoria did not refuse Riveria's invitation and readily accepted the offer.
Because it was also good for her. If she wanted to develop Camelot in the Harry Potter world, she had to turn to Dimension City for assistance.
If she had a good relationship with Riveria, the internal affairs manager of Dimension City, she would be able to get some convenience when she needed assistance in the future. After all, although Takumi had already nodded and agreed to provide assistance, the operational process still remained with Riveria. Riveria controlled how much assistance would be provided and could intervene if necessary.
Therefore, it would definitely not harm her to have a good relationship with Riveria.
...
After the morning's interlude, Takumi also started a new day's work after having breakfast.
It was customary to start by taking care of the farmland.
But because it was winter now, the cultivated land without greenhouses was not planted, so he only needed to visit a few greenhouses, which was very simple.
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In the vegetable greenhouse, he dug up a few small plots of land that had just been harvested, planted a new batch, and then went to the experimental fields and medicinal fields to have a look.
By the way, Tia also helped during the process.
In addition to occasionally helping Hestia take care of the library and reference room, she was mainly responsible for managing the agriculture of Dimension City.
For example, a new experimental project in the experimental field was the planting and cultivation of self-saved seeds.
In other words, using the wheat and rice grown by Takumi out of thin air as seeds, to be planted by others without Takumi's direct magic.
This was a very important project, related to the future food production of Dimension City.
The main thing was that in the future, when there were more people in Dimension City, they couldn't just rely on Takumi to grow food.
Although the enhanced ingredients grown by Takumi were very good, he couldn't always produce them alone.
Not to mention it took up a lot of his time, this pattern was abnormal, as if he were supporting everyone in Dimension City single-handedly.
This was wrong; there was a big problem with this social structure.
First of all, there would be more people in the future, but if they weren't engaged in agricultural production, what would so many people do? If there was no extra work for them, would it really be useful to just support them?
Therefore, he must leave some work for future generations so that they can be self-reliant, lest they become accustomed to handouts and become parasites.
Secondly, it was not appropriate to implement the distribution system indefinitely. It was okay while there were few people at present, but in the future when the population grew, the distribution process alone would take a lot of manpower.
It was better to let the new immigrants be self-sufficient, so that they had jobs and their own food, and Takumi didn't have to worry about micromanagement.
Moreover, as the saying goes, if the family has enough food, there is no need to panic.
With food security, people can better release their productivity and do other things without worries.
Just like Takumi's recent actions; to a certain extent, it was precisely because of the large amount of food stored in the past that gave Takumi the confidence to mobilize so many people to do other things, even for the winter vacation.
In short, it was necessary to experimentally study ways to let others farm.
Of course, Takumi was not worried about not being able to plant it; after all, it was successful in the original work.
The reason for conducting this experiment was mainly because Takumi wanted to know the yield and maturity time of those self-saved seeds.
Only after understanding the situation could they arrange for the new immigrants to farm effectively. Otherwise, if there was no plan, things might go wrong.
Taking advantage of the time now to experiment and optimize farming techniques and processes would make it easier when the time came. Anyway, he had nothing to do now, so just prepare in advance.
Tia was mainly responsible for this project now.
But today, there would be more crops in the experimental field.
Well, those were the high-quality seeds unique to the One Piece world that he acquired from Robin yesterday.