Lord Helanza

The Mayor of Bright didn't expect Surdak to have such an idea. There is no doubt that this is a good thing for the whole village.

It’s just that for Wall Village, this is not so easy to achieve. The old village chief has lived in Wall Village for most of his life. I am very familiar with the poor land surrounding Wall Village. The people living here are all poor people struggling with food and clothing. It is not easy to build a reservoir.

In fact, there are not no water pools similar to reservoirs in this area. The limestone seepage into the ground is particularly serious.

Every year when the rainy season comes, the bottom of the gully in the Beigou pasture will collect rainwater flowing down from the mountains on all sides. As long as two heavy rains can fill the water pool in the Beigou pasture, there is only one such pool. In summer, when autumn comes, there will be no rainfall near the Beigou pasture, and the pool at the bottom of the Beigou will quickly dry up.

The most important reason is that there are many cracks and holes in the limestone layer at the bottom of the ditch. Rainwater will continuously seep into the ground. Only when the rainfall is abundant, the Beigou pasture will have a water pool, and you want to store this rainwater. If so, we must first do the anti-seepage work of the reservoir.

The other thing is to solve the problem of labor. Of course, the construction of a dam is not just a simple earth wall, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Based on the situation of Wall Village itself, it may not be necessary to build it for 20 years. This simple reservoir can be repaired.

Surdak said to the old village chief: "I think that after the harvest festival, people in the village will be asked to build a reservoir. Everyone who is willing to go to work will pay one Silver Coin a day and take care of two meals a day. Wheat bread with chestnut rice porridge, noon scones and stewed meat."

When the head of Bright village saw Surdak said this, he had obviously made up his mind and thought of waiting for Surdak to get the Knight Academy diploma. On the day he officially became Knight, Wall Village was destined to become his Fiefdom, so he did not object to it.

The old village chief squinted his eyes and heard Surdak say that the villagers need to be paid for to build the reservoir, and he repeatedly said with emotion: “Just take care of the food, what kind of money is needed, let’s say that this is a matter in the village. Where else can you pay another wage..."

Surdak stood by the old village head and said to the old village head: "Since you are willing to work, there is no reason to do it in vain. Seeing that the autumn harvest is about to come, this one has been decided in advance, and I still have to wait for the cement to actually be used. I also plan to build a smaller pool and try this cement pool to see if it does not seep..."

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The carpenters in the village have successively come to the village chief Bright’s house. The old village chief has long wanted to repair the dilapidated houses in the village. It was a night last winter. The heavy snow overwhelmed two old houses. When the house was dug out from the ruins under the snow, people had long been frozen.

Because of this, the old village chief learned that the salamander tail can create extra surplus in the village, so he asked Surdak to personally go to Helanza City to sell the lizard tail and exchange it for a large number of nails. The hinges and door bolts are just to repair the houses in the village.

Surdak didn’t want to get involved with repairing the houses in the village. When the carpenters came one after another, Surdak took the five youngsters from the village and left the old village chief’s house. He would sell it from Helanza. The money returned from the salamander meat was divided among the five youngsters with 50 Silver Coins each according to the previous calculation.

When the five youngsters received fifty Silver Coins, even Charlie was a little uncomfortable.

Everyone got together to discuss everyone talking at once, whether to go to the Yanbaoshan area and try one's luck again, if you can meet a salamander again, then post it.

Val put fifty Silver Coins in his pocket, and he tried to bite almost every Silver Coin with his teeth, sitting on a stone under the dead tree at the entrance of the village, silly and silly.

A silhouette of a caravan appeared on the mountain road far away from the entrance of the village of Wall. The crisp bells made a pleasant sound, but this time the caravan arrived in Wall Village, the children in the village did not charge ahead from the entrance of the village as they did in the past.

The children are all restrained at home. Today they need to help take care of the younger brothers and younger sisters in the house. The older children have to go with their family to the tidal flats of the river to cut red Thatch.

The whole village is busy repairing their houses. The herringbone wooden frame on the roof will be re-reinforced, and then covered with a thick layer of red thatch. The tidal flats are already crowded with harvest red. The thatched villagers spread bundles of red thatch on the sandy ground by the river beach to dry them, and occasionally flew a few wild ducks hidden in the red thatch.

When the caravan came, it was natural that the old village chief came to greet him personally. More than 30 limestone iguanas were still kept in the villagers’ homes. The caravan bought the ash at the original agreed price. The rock iguana, the acquisition process went smoothly, but with two Gold Coins in his hand, the old village head suddenly felt that something was missing. After thinking about it, he lost the joy of the past, although this deal was sold more last year. A little bit, but any joy was diluted by the harvest Surdak brought back last night.

After the caravan leader had purchased the salamanders, he did not rush to leave the village of Wall. According to the plan, they needed to rush to the next village tomorrow morning, but this time the villagers’ enthusiasm for buying was much less than before. The stalls set up at the entrance of the village are hardly visited by many people. I asked the old village chief to find out that today the village is undergoing house repairs, and almost the whole village is busy. At this time, of course no one would go to the caravan to hang out.

The old village chief, holding a walnut pipe in his hand, sat on the roots of the dead tree at the entrance of the village, and chatted casually with the leader of the caravan.

The leader of the caravan put a handful of very finely cut tobacco into the old village chief’s pipe, and then lit the pipe with a match for the old village chief. Everyone sat together, and the caravan leader said :

"A major incident happened here yesterday. A band of bandits originally planned to enter the Paglos Mountains to rob, but didn’t expect just arrived at the pass and didn’t know who was killed. All the robbers were wiped out, all the robbers were nailed to the cross on the top of the mountain, speaking of which our caravan was considered unfathomable mystery this time and escaped a catastrophe. I also heard that the robber group was ransacked in Helanza recently. Many noble estates."

Speaking of this, the leader of the caravan was a little overjoyed.

The old village chief rolled his muddy eyes, pretending to be confused and asked: "On the Yamaguchi side?"

The caravan leader replied, "Yes, When you always have the opportunity to go to Helanza City and pass the mountain pass, don’t forget to take a look at the top of the mountain."

The old village chief asked again: "Have you heard of who killed the bandit? Regiment?"

The leader of the caravan was shook the head, and only said: "This is not known for the time being. Everyone guesses that it is the guard camp in Hailansa City..."

While everyone was talking about this, Surdak sat aside and listened quietly...

...

Glenfell Manor in Helanza City

A Knight wearing a dark red leather armor barged in outside, facing Glenfield Baron, who was reading a black magic book, and said in a low voice:

"Taylor is dead..."

Glenfield Baron broke a quill'ka-cha' in his hand with a sound. He wrinkled his brows and said angrily:

"He just sent back a message saying that he had found it. The hiding place of Saintess, tell me now that he actually died on the pass of Mount Paglos? Our clue is broken again!" The Knight wearing dark red leather armor also had a slight expression on his face. After a change, he asked: "Didn't he say where Saintess is hiding?"

Glenfield Baron casually smashed the teacup on the desk against the wall, unable to suppress the anger in his heart, angrily said:

"Is this really him? The Desolate Land in the Paglos Mountains, and the governor of Sea Lansa City don’t know how many natural villages are hidden..."

The dark red leather armored Knight standing opposite him didn't look too irritable, and said gloomily with a smile: "But...this time, after all, there is a direction to look for, isn't it?"