Since there is no gender limit to the druid lineage, why are there far more female druids than men in the "Green Country"?

After listening to Valentina's explanation, Roland and Yodel realized that this was the result of a combination of three factors.

One is because Valentina, the founder of the "Harvest Ring" and the mentor of the "Green Druid" herself, is a woman, and when she includes disciples, she also loves girls more because of her personal preference, so that the top level of the "Harvest Ring" is gradually occupied by female druids, even if it is not said that women are inferior to men, at least the status of women is not lower than that of men, which is incompatible with the general tradition of Far Eastern folk men being inferior to women and women having no inheritance rights, and it is difficult for a macho person who is deeply influenced by tradition to recognize such an atmosphere. Mr. Yodel, for example, felt a little uncomfortable being watched by the curious onlookers of girls big and small......

The second reason is that the "Harvest Ring" mainly replenishes new people by adopting orphans and abandoned babies in various parts of the Far East, so it has a close relationship with orphanages, nurseries and other charities in various places. However, during the Imperial Provincial Era, the "Druid Society" was a first-class cult on the church's blacklist, and it was suppressed by the government for a long time, and it did not dare to operate openly in the city...... Therefore, the poor do not want their children to be sold into the hands of the druids, preferring their children to be adopted by a normal family, while those who suffer from having no children are more likely to adopt boys to take on the responsibility of carrying on the lineage, and have a somewhat discriminatory attitude towards female infants. As a result, the Harvest Ring has little choice but to adopt the poor girls who have been left behind.

The last factor is determined by the system of the druid community. The Green Druid respects nature and does not force adult members to stay in the "Green Country". Most boys are extroverted, active, and adventurous, and as they grow older, their desire to go out into the outside world grows stronger. Therefore, most of the male druids who have achieved success in their studies are not willing to stay on the country farm for the rest of their lives, and will always leave their teachers for various reasons. Female druids are relatively more fond of a calm and stable life, and can endure the loneliness of the countryside, and the last remaining druids are naturally mostly women.

Valentina didn't care about the ratio of men to women in the "Harvest Ring", but as time went on, the imbalance between men and women became more and more serious, so that the range of young girls in the community became narrower and narrower, and the number of lifelong non-marriages increased.

In order to improve this situation, the "Harvest Ring" also wanted to adopt as many boys as possible in recent years, but unfortunately with little success, Valentina changed her thinking, and gave priority to recommending those young and unmarried female disciples when she chose to be stationed in the village druids, hoping that they would get rid of the "green field" This yin and yang environment is prosperous and yang, and have the opportunity to meet more young people of the same age during the rural practice.

The idea is good, but the practice is not ideal. In this world where supernatural powers exist, although there is no reproductive isolation between ordinary humans and supernatural professionals, true love can be generated, but the huge gap between ideological concepts, physical fitness, and the upper limit of abilities makes them more like two different creatures, and it is difficult to form a long-term and stable family.

These unsuccessful attempts made Valgentina realize that it was difficult for the Green Druid to combine with ordinary people, but she was not discouraged, and when discussing cooperation with Roland and Yodel to build a rural commune, she also half-jokingly brought up this topic, and told Roland to try to select unmarried young men when looking for a priest and sheriff in the village, and she would also give priority to sending girls to be married, both parties are extraordinary professionals, and there is no obvious conflict between camps and ideas, and it is also beneficial to the rural governance work to form a few more "husband and wife files":

"It's better for a young couple to work and live together than to be restless in two places apart."

Roland was initially amused by her eagerness to "marry her daughter", but if you think about it carefully, Valentina's proposal actually has merits, such as sending unmarried people to work in the countryside as much as possible, so as to avoid long-term separation between husband and wife and bury the hidden danger of family discord.

This "paradise" built around the big oak tree, when you take the airship, it seems that the area is not large, but when you measure it with your feet, you know that this farm covering an area of about 50,000 acres is really a big piece!

Valentina accompanied the delegation to visit the "Green Country", from farmland, pastures, vegetable gardens and other plots that are not much different from ordinary villages, to experimental gardens with different characteristics, such as the cultivation of improved seeds, the improvement of fertilizers, and the domestication of new crops.

Valentina, seeing that the visitors were tired and hungry, invited them to dinner.

Although the "Harvest Ring" does not have strict rules and regulations like other monasteries, it also has a religious atmosphere, and dinner for all members is an old rule with a "sense of ceremony".

When the group returned to the Great Oak Tree, the table was already set, and the green-robed druid girls neatly set up pots of fragrant stew and freshly baked bread, and invited the visitors to a sumptuous dinner.

The Green Druids advocate natural balance, and only hunt when a certain beast poses a threat to the ecological environment, while domesticated livestock are slaughtered during the Chinese New Year, and most of the cubs left in the corral are young, so the food taken out to entertain guests is mostly vegetarian, and the meat is a home-cooked meal based on smoked products. But on such a snowy winter, isn't it a luxury to sit in the shade of a tree like spring and savor the delicious soup made by the legendary Great Druid with fresh pumpkin, cream, rock salt, pepper and nutmeg?

After dinner, Valentina instructed her disciples to arrange for visitors from afar to take a bath and rest. The rooms that look like big mushrooms have a natural hot spring, so you can soak in the hot spring bath after eating and drinking, and wash away the fatigue of your body, which is really a fairy-like enjoyment.

Roland was dozing lazily in the hot spring, when a red light suddenly appeared in front of him, and when he reached out to grab it, the red ball of light slipped away from his fingers, floating mischievously on the water, as if he was deliberately tugging at his heartstrings.

PS. Units on the area of farmland

Originally, it was intended to use the imperial unit to calculate the cultivated area according to the practice of Western fantasy, but considering that most readers are relatively unfamiliar with units of measurement such as "acres", and it is also very troublesome to convert, the unit of measurement of farmland area in the book in the future will default to the "city mu" that we are more familiar with, 1 mu ≈ 666.67 square meters.